BRIDGEPORT–Police have made an arrest one day after a 14-year-old boy was shot to death.
At 4:17 p.m. Luis Colon, 14, of Bridgeport, was shot and killed in front of Stylz Barber Shop, located at 1156 State St.
Colon was standing nearby a group of about 10 men when two other men approached them and one of them, Michael Majors, 23, of Bridgeport, opened fire. Colon was shot in the chest and died at St. Vincent’s Hospital a short time later.
The shooting was caught on surveillance video, and it doesn’t look like Colon was the target. One of the men in the group that was shot at returned fire, shooting one of the suspects, Trey Kaiser, 17, of Bridgeport, in the leg.
Kaiser and Majors live together on State Street, about three blocks from the shooting site.
Majors was quickly identified as a suspect, and while he initially denied the incident when interviewed by police, he eventually confessed to the shooting.
Majors was charged with murder and is being held on $1 million bond.
