Police Identify Victim In Fatal New London Stabbing: PD

NEW LONDON, CT — Police have identified the victim in a fatal stabbing that occurred Sunday afternoon in New London. The incident was the city's third homicide to occur in less than two weeks, according to police.

Police said the deceased victim was identified as Travon Brown, 27, of New London.

Police said the New London Emergency Communications Center received a call Sunday at approximately 2:30 p.m. reporting a male stab victim at a residence in the area of Grand Street and Elm Street.

Police located a man with stab wounds lying inside the home, police said. Medical attention was immediately initiated on the victim, who was subsequently transported to L+M Hospital, police said.

He was later pronounced deceased by a hospital physician, police said.

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Police are currently investigating the situation. Anyone with information is asked to contact police immediately.

Mayor Michael Passero last Monday released a statement after a fatal shooting and stabbing occurred last weekend. Last Saturday, police said a young man was shot and killed on Orchard Street in New London. A day later, police said a man was fatally stabbed to death on Tilley Street.

"Our city experienced unacceptable violence in unrelated incidents this past weekend that resulted in the deaths of two people," Passero said in his statement, which was released last week. "These two most recent deaths follow a similar violent death just a few weeks ago at a Blackhall Street residence. As a community, we deeply regret the loss of life and express our condolences to the families and friends of the victims."

Passero also highlighted the city's safety in spite of these recent successive acts of violence.

"Thankfully, in each of these tragic incidents, the general public was never at risk," Passero said in his statement, which was released last Monday. "Our city is safe and the New London Police Department has done a remarkable job investigating and swiftly resolving these crimes. Moreover, beyond merely reacting to violence of this sort when it happens, city staff has been proactively engaged in developing methods to prevent this type of violence."

Passero said in his statement city officials have assembled an interagency, multijurisdictional initiative to identify the underlying social factors that lead to incidences of violence like the incidents this past weekend.

"This effort engages our police, fire prevention, health, human services and building departments in a collaborative effort that will identify causes and formulate methods and policies to mitigate conditions that lead to this type of violence," Passero said. "This string of recent tragedies is, of course, discouraging to our efforts. The goal of our task force in the coming weeks will be to completely deconstruct the circumstances that led to these two latest violent confrontations and to redouble our efforts to identify measures that could help to prevent future violence of this nature. The city administration is committed to stemming violence of this type in our community and continuing our overall quality of life campaign."

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