A Connecticut man shot his girlfriend and killed her friend before turning the gun on himself Tuesday morning in New Haven, police said.
Kerwin Romero, 41, killed Jennifer Adams, 35, at a home in the city just before 2 a.m., New Haven Police Chief Karl Jacobson said at a press conference. Romero also wounded a 38-year-old woman who has not been publicly identified.
The wounded woman, who police believe was Romero’s girlfriend, was in critical condition at a local hospital on Tuesday afternoon. She was also the mother of two children who were in the home and called 911 following the gunshots.
Cops responded to the scene on Congress Ave. around 1:50 a.m. Tuesday and located all three victims in the home, Jacobson said. Investigators believe Romero and the wounded woman lived in the house with her two kids, who were physically unharmed in the shooting.
Jacobson said there was a car that fled the scene as officers arrived, but cops tracked it down and found only a juvenile with illegal drugs, unrelated to the murder-suicide.
Romero was the subject of a restraining order in a separate case in West Haven involving a different woman, according to the police chief. The incident occurred in July 2025, and Romero was accused of assaulting and threatening the woman. He was free on $75,000 bail.
Additionally, Romero had a criminal history in New Haven dating back to 2012, when he was charged with assault for allegedly shooting another man in the city.
There was a similar murder-suicide in Connecticut last month, when Joel Martinez, 32, fatally shot Cynthia Jiminez-Pacheco, 33, in a Hartford apartment building, then turned the gun on himself. Cops said Martinez and Jiminez-Pacheco were in a prior relationship.
Earlier in the year, a 56-year-old Old Greenwich man fatally shot his 83-year-old mother and then took his own life in their home, according to police. The gunman, Stein-Erik Soelberg, shared his paranoia with ChatGPT before killing his mom, Suzanne Adams, and then himself in August, investigators said.