By Associated Press - Wednesday, March 25, 2015

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - A clerk has been shot and killed inside a store in Bridgeport.

City police say the shooting Wednesday morning killed 32-year-old Hakeem Joseph of Bridgeport. The suspect fled on foot and remains at large.

It was the year’s second homicide in Connecticut’s largest city.



Police say a masked man wearing a hood and sweatshirt with tan-colored camouflage pants fired multiple shots at Joseph, striking him once. Joseph was pronounced dead at a hospital.

The circumstance surrounding the shooting are still under investigation.

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