Norwich Man Arrested In Connection With New London Shooting

NORWICH, CT — Federal prosecutors indicted, and had arrested, 26-year-old Tremain Dowdell of Norwich in connection with a September shooting in New London.

According to the US Attorney's office, Dowdell was arrested today on an indictment charging him with a federal firearm offense related to his alleged participation in an assault and shooting in New London. On Oct. 3, a federal grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment charging Dowdell with one count of possession of ammunition by a convicted felon.

According to the indictment and statements made in court during Dowdell’s initial appearance today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert M. Spector in New Haven, video surveillance from the H&T Mart on Ocean Avenue in New London on Sept. 14 shows four people assaulting a customer as they left the store. Video captured Dowdell removing a gun from his pants and firing a single shot toward the victim of the assault. When police arrived a short time later, officers found a .40 caliber cartridge casing at the location where Dowdell fired the gun.

It is alleged that Dowdell has prior state felony convictions for larceny, burglary and failure to appear offenses. It is a violation of federal law for a person previously convicted of a felony offense to possess a firearm or ammunition that has moved in interstate or foreign commerce.
If convicted of the offense charged in the indictment, Dowdell faces a maximum term of imprisonment of 10 years.

Dowdell is in jail.

New London Police Department, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with the assistance of the Norwich Police Department and Connecticut State Parole investigated the case.