New London — Police on Sunday identified the city’s first homicide victim in 15 months as 31-year-old Floyd S. Fooks Jr., who was found early Saturday morning with multiple gunshot wounds in a basement apartment at 37 Spring St.

Fooks’ body was taken to the state Medical Examiner’s office in Meriden Sunday, where an autopsy was conducted. A spokesman at the office said results of the autopsy would not be released until today. New London police attended the autopsy, acting Chief Peter Reichard said Sunday morning.

Reichard could not be reached later in the day, but police said Sunday night that no arrests have been made.

Police were called to the apartment at 37 Spring St. at 2:15 a.m. Saturday for reports of three or four gunshots in the area. Fooks was found unresponsive in the basement apartment. He was taken to Lawrence + Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:51 a.m., Saturday, police said.

Fooks was the son of Floyd S. Fooks, Sr. and Mattie Fooks, both deceased, of New London. According to a brief obituary submitted to The Day, a memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Miracle Temple, 25 Broad St., with calling hours to be held from 1 to 3 p.m. prior to the service.

The family declined to comment through a request made to the funeral home.

According to stories published in The Day, Fooks had been arrested at least nine times since 2000, when he was 17, through 2013. The charges ranged from possession and intent to sell crack cocaine to assault, risk of injury to a minor and breach of peace. He lived at several different New London addresses over those years.

State Judicial Department records show two convictions, one for possession of narcotics in November 2009 and one for second-degree breach of peace in October 2010. In both convictions, Fooks received suspended sentences with no prison time.

Reichard said Saturday the house at 37 Spring St. is well known to the police and neighbors on the street. Officers were called to the address last month “for a domestic dispute involving a criminal mischief complaint,” he said.

Officers also executed a search warrant at the house recently, he said.

Saturday’s homicide is New London’s first since December 2013. And 2014 was the first year since 2002 that the city did not experience a murder or non-negligent manslaughter.

A young woman who said she lives on the first floor of 37 Spring St. said Saturday morning that the man who lived in the basement apartment was a friend of her mother’s.

“All I know is he got shot,” the woman, who would identify herself only as Zenaida, said. “I’ve never had a problem with him, I really didn’t know him.”

Zenaida said the man had lived in the basement apartment with his daughter and another man for at least eight months.

State Rep. Ernest Hewett, who lives nearby and is the president of the Town Hill Neighborhood Group, stopped by the scene Saturday morning.

“This is so sad. This is my neighborhood and my neighborhood group,” Hewett said. “We haven’t had any problems here in a long time.”

A neighbor said he knows the older man who owns the yellow and white multifamily home at 37 Spring St., and occasionally saw its residents outside the house.

“In the summer I’d see people sitting out front smoking cigarettes, but that’s about it,” the neighbor, Mike Parizo, said. “This is a quiet street; nothing ever raised my suspicion.”

Police are asking anyone with information about the shooting to call them at (860) 442-4444, (860) 447-1481 or TIPS411.

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