Gottingen Street shooting victim identified, police search for suspect

By Mark Hodgins, Andy Pinsent

HALIFAX – Regional Police have confirmed Tuesday night’s deadly shooting on Gottingen St. to be a homicide and have identified the victim.

Twenty-three-year-old Naricho Clayton of Dartmouth was pronounced dead inside a vehicle on Gottingen St. near Falkland St. around 11 p.m. Tuesday, after police responded to numerous reports of multiple shots fired in the area.

A second victim, a 31-year-old man originally from Halifax, was found inside the same vehicle and taken to hospital with what police called, “life threatening injuries.”

Police say the man’s condition is improving, but investigators have not yet been able to speak to him.

Constable Dianne Woodworth said Thursday that police have also identified a male-suspect in the investigation, while also exploring the possibility that someone may have assisted him, knowingly or unknowingly.

On Wednesday, Deputy Police Chief Bill Moore told reporters that police are appealing to the public for information in an effort to avoid any possible “retaliation,” saying there may be a connection between this homicide and the death of former Halifax Rainmen player Tyler Richards over the weekend.

Moore wouldn’t specifically call the two shootings gang related, nor would he say if drugs were a factor.

“I would say there appears to be groups involved in criminality that are associated with each other, doing those things that criminals do,” Moore said.

With Tuesday’s shooting death now confirmed as a homicide, police now have three active homicide investigations currently being handled — including the shooting of Joey Cameron in Dartmouth and Richards, with the latest incident raising the total number of murders in the area this year to six.

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