Rev. Scott Marks, Daily’s other godfather, used his speech to criticize a city that he saw as having a “booming downtown” and being for the rich but not for the residents of neighborhoods like Newhallville, where Daily grew up.
The ceremony took place just over two weeks after Daily, a 17-year-old Riverside Academy student, was shot and killed on Shelton Avenue. His death came less than two weeks after his friend and Riverside classmate, 16-year-old Uzziah Shell, was shot dead near Goffe and Hudson streets in the Dixwell neighborhood on Nov. 22.
New Haven police have recovered vehicles involved in both killings. In a phone interview with the Independent on Thursday afternoon, department spokesperson Christian Bruckhart said that while he had no new updates, both investigations remained active, with detectives scouring the cars for DNA evidence.
Police have linked both homicides to an ongoing feud between youth “groups” in the city — loose groups of young people affiliated with certain neighborhoods. Bruckhart said city police are still monitoring those tensions, and explained that they are not currently viewing these groups as gangs, due to their lack of formal hierarchy or affiliation.
“16 years ago, I had to go stand at the bedside of another Daily when he was killed in this same city because of the same thing,” Marks thundered from the pulpit. “So I stand here today, and I do have joy because I’m going to fight until the day I die, that things will be different.”
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