NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTIC Radio)_ New Haven Police say a city mother was shot and killed in a homicide Monday morning.
Police say Alessia M. Mesquita, 28, of New Haven, got into a fight with her boyfriend, Rashod Akeem Newton, 27, inside a car in the area of Clifton and Lenox Streets around 9:19 a.m. Investigators say when Mesquita went to get out of the car, she was shot. Her one-year-old child was still in the car.
Newton was arrested on Eastern Street in the hours after the shooting. He was arrested on an unrelated charge out of West Haven for assault in the first degree.
The child was located and hospitalized for medical evaluation. No injuries were reported.
The investigation remains open.