The Bridgeport Police Department is investigating a shooting that occurred on the East Side early Monday night.
At 7:34 p.m. Monday night, police received a ShotSpotter Activation of one gunshot on Barnum Avenue. A 911 caller on Mill Hill Avenue then reported hearing the shot. Officers found 38-year-old Bernard Fludd on the ground on Mill Hill Avenue near the corner of Barnum Avenue. He was unresponsive and suffering from a gunshot wound. He was transported up the street by ambulance to Bridgeport Hospital, where he was pronounced deceased.
Officers detained several persons who were seen running into a house on Mill Hill Avenue after the shooting.
Mill Hill Avenue near Grant Street was closed for several hours on Monday night while the Major Crimes Unit processed the scene. Detectives executed a search warrant on the house early Tuesday morning.
This is the ninth homicide in Bridgeport in 2026.
Mr. Fludd lived one block away from where he was shot.
Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Thomas Harper at: (203) 581-5239.