The mother of 14-year-old Tyrick "Reese" Keyes made an emotional plea Monday for the public to help police with their murder investigation as a $50,000 reward is now being offered to anyone with information that can lead to an arrest and conviction.

"This right here is what a mother should never have to go through," Demthra Telfod said, showing a photo of her son in the hospital before he died.

It has been three months since someone shot her youngest child on Bassett Street in New Haven. He passed away four days later.

"If anyone know anything or seen anything on that day, please come forward, I need your help, call the police department, ease the peace for me and my family," Telford said.

New Haven Police detectives are still trying to figure out who pulled the trigger.

"Since the shooting, no other eyewitnesses have come forward despite several neighborhood canvasses," Chief Anthony Campbell said.

Detectives also want to find out why this happened.

"We’re not sure of the exact motive at this time," Detective Paul D’Andrea said. "He was, in fact, shot multiple times."

Now Keyes’ mother and investigators are hoping the $50,000 reward authorized by Governor Malloy’s office will motivate someone to help police solve the case.

"He never had the opportunity to attend high school and he was shot down in the streets of New Haven," Campbell said. "That’s unacceptable, completely unacceptable."

As the homicide investigation continues, Telford holds onto photos to keep her son’s memory alive.

"My son was a good son and he did a lot and he left that good legacy for me to smile upon," she said.

There are multiple ways for anyone with information connected to the murder case to get in touch with NHPD. The detectives' division number is (203) 946-6304 and the anonymous tip line (203) 946-6296. A tip can be sent by texting “NHPD” with the message to 274637 or by email.

Route 6 was closed between Elm Street and Route 72 in Terryville after a paving and milling truck broke down, but one lane on each side has reopened.

Officials said construction is going on and the road was initially expected to be closed until after 9 a.m.

Construction is beginning on two large housing units in New Britain.

Ground will be broken today on Columbus Commons, a new housing development on Columbus Boulevard that will include two 5-story buildings, about 160 apartments, an interior courtyard and retail or office space on the first floor. 

The development, which will be in downtown New Britain, near CT fastrak, will cost $58 million and will be paid for with federal and state funds.

The state Department of Economic and Community Development invested $2.7 million in Brownfield Funds to help with demolition and environmental cleanup and the Connecticut Finance Agency awarded a $1.6 million low-income tax credit.

A nonagenarian who set a world record as the oldest woman to complete a full marathon has died, her family confirmed in a published report.

Harriette Thompson, 94, smiled and laughed as she crossed the finish line at the Rock 'N' Roll Marathon in San Diego in June.

With her finish, Thompson became the oldest woman to run a half-marathon.

"I guess it's unusual, but I don't know why people make such a big deal," Thompson said at the time. "I feel just like I did when I was 16. But I just can’t move as fast."

In 2015, Thompson broke the world record as the oldest woman to complete a full marathon.

The Charlotte Observer reported Monday Thompson died in hospice after suffering an injury in a fall on Oct. 6.

Thompson, a cancer survivor, used her love of running to raise money for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society.

Through the years, she raised $100,000 for the organization. She raised $15,000 in 2017 alone.

In June, when she completed the Rock n' Roll marathon with a time of 3 hours, 42 minutes, Thompson was most pleased that she did it surrounded by members of her family.

"I enjoyed running across the finish line," Thompson said. "That’s always the biggest thing. And I really enjoyed having my family with me."

With just days to go before Halloween, there are haunted happenings all across Connecticut to satisfy your desire for all things spooky.

Here are some of them:

Bristol: The Haunted Graveyard at Lake Compounce, 186 Enterprise Drive 

• The Haunted Graveyard walkthrough begins at dusk.
• Cost: Combo rides and graveyard tickets are $34.99 for adults and $27.99 for children who are 11 and younger. The price for only the Haunted Graveyard is $27.99 for adults and $22.99 for children 11 and younger. Parking is $9 if you buy online or $10 at the gate.

East Haven: Haunted Isle at the Shore Line Trolley Museum 

• Until the end of October, the oldest continuously running suburban trolley line in the U.S. becomes spooky. “Legend has it that somewhere in the woods at the end of the trolley tracks lurk the things that nightmares are made of. This fall a lonely trolley will carry passengers down the tracks to the gate. The choice is yours… enter if you dare!” the website says.
• This is not recommended for children under 10, anyone who is pregnant, has a heart condition or asthma or is prone to seizures.
• Trolleys leave from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays through Oct. 28.
• Cost: $12 for general admission, $20 for express admission.

Hamden: Creeperum Haunted House, 41R Marne St. 

• Creeperum Haunted House boasts a “sinister collection of creepy, fantastic and horrific oddities from around the world” and it is not recommended for children under 13.
• It is open Thursdays through Sundays through Oct. 31 at 41R Marne St., behind Monkey Joe's Party Center.
• Cost: $20 for advance general admission, $25 at the door general admission, $33 for advance V.I.P speed pass cut to the front of the line, $40 at the door for V.I.P Speed Pass Cut to the front of the line.

North Haven: The Scream Haunted Attraction, 275 Valley Service Road. 

• The event is open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through Oct. 29 and it’s not recommended for anyone under 14.
• Cost: Tickets are $15. Group discounts are available for groups of 20 people or more.

Norwalk: The Haunting at Mill Hill, Mill Hill Historic Park, 2 East Wall St.

• Tour the Mill Hill graveyard by lantern light and hear stories of murder, death and destruction. The organizers say the attraction is appropriate for children ages 8 and up.
• Tours are available at 9 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 20 and 6 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 21.
• Tickets are $12 for children between 8 and 12 and $18 for teens and adults.

Shelton: Legends of Fear, Fairview Tree Farm, 2 Sam Mill City Road

• At Legends of Fear, “unspeakable beings are lurking in the shadows of the eerie October moonlit nights.” On Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays until Nov. 4 take the haunted hayride or be frightened at four attractions: the Hallow (for ages 12 and over), Melon Head Revenge Train, the all-new Helmock Manor Mortuary, Pine Hills Parish and The Dark Harvest.
• Cost: $25 The Hallow (four attractions); $24 for the haunted hayride; $42 for a combo ticket for all five attractions; or $57 for VIP ticket, which is limited in quantity.

South Windsor: Nightmare Acres, 240 Governors Highway

• Nightmare Acres, located at Nomads Outdoor Adventure, is not recommended for anyone under 14.
• It is open Fridays and Saturdays, 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. and Sundays from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. until Oct. 29. Anyone under 14 must be accompanied by an adult.
• Cost: Tickets range from $12 for the group rate to $35 for the nightmare pass. Cost is $5 to park in the Doosan parking lot.

Stratford: Fright Haven, 411 Barnum Ave. 

• Open Thursdays through Sundays through Oct. 22, Monday, Oct. 30 and Tuesday, Oct. 31. Organizers say you’ll be too scared to scream. Those with weak hearts, health conditions, young children and pregnant women are advised to enter at their own risk. 
• Cost: General admission tickets are $20 with an advance ticket purchase online or $25 at the door. A V.I.P. Cut the Line Speed Pass is $39 with an advance ticket purchase online or $49 at the door. A special V.I.P. ticket with a T-shirt is $49 with an advance ticket purchase or $55 at the door, which also entitles you to a souvenir fashion Fright Haven T-shirt.

Wallingford: Trail of Terror, 60 North Plains Highway, Wallingford 

• It is open Fridays and Saturdays, 7 p.m. until 11 p.m. and Sundays, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. until Oct. 29 and it’s not recommended for children under 10 to walk the trail. It is not recommended for young children to attend and children under 5 will not be allowed.
• Cost:$20 for a timed ticket; $18 for a group timed ticket; $15 for general admission. PNA Park, located at the corner of N Plains Hwy and N Plains Industrial Road, provides parking for the Trail of Terror for $8 per car and $25 per coach or school bus.

Waterbury: Nightmare on Wolcott St., 1058 Wolcott St., Waterbury 

• Nightmare on Wolcott Street includes more than 55 rooms of terror, including chainsaws, creepy sounds, animatronics, live characters and more. It is open from 6 p.m. until midnight on Friday and Saturday and 6 p.m. until 11 p.m. on Sundays. The event runs through Oct. 29. It is recommended for teens and adults. Younger children can go if children bring them, but organizers do not encourage that anyone be carried.
• Cost: Tickets are $15.

If your favorite haunted happening is missing, comment here or email us at news@nbcconnecticut.com.

Two teens were arrested on drug charges during a traffic stop in Wilton Sunday.

Nineteen-year-old Mateus Nascimento-Dacosta of Danbury and 18-year-old Jazmine Mccabe of Brookfield each face charges of possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana with intent to sell, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

The pair was pulled over on Route 7 around 11 p.m. Sunday for a broken headlight. When officers approached they smelled marijuana coming from the vehicle, police said.

Police searched the vehicle and found 1.125 pounds of marijuana, 1 ounce of butane hash oil/wax, 28 THC liquid refills for e-cigarettes and five Xanax pills.

Both Nascimento-Dacosta and Mccabe were arraigned in Norwalk Superior Court Monday and are due back in November.

Temperatures range from below freezing in some parts of Connecticut to 40 degrees in others this morning before the weather starts to warm up today.

Officials in Bantam said it was only 28 degrees as of 5:40 a.m., while temperatures in Torrington are around 31 and 35 in Norwich.

That means that residents in parts of the state will have to scrape the windows on their vehicle before heading out the door this morning. 

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Pacific Gas and Electric Co. officials revealed Monday that they have officially notified California regulators of eight separate electric equipment failures in the recent North Bay firestorm – but declined to detail what triggered them.

“Since Sunday’s windstorm, the company has submitted eight electric incident reports related to damaged facilities to the CPUC,’’ the company said in a statement late Monday, which stresses the utility will “support and assist with the review of these wildfires by the appropriate regulatory agencies…”

PG&E referred questions about those reports, however, to state regulators, who did not respond to several requests for details made by NBC Bay Area.

The eight incidents – now being probed by state regulators as well as Cal Fire – are relevant given that the CPUC has long been grappling with a particular fire-safety threat posed from the state’s 4.2 million power poles.

Public Utilities Commission President Michael Picker said Monday that regulators are not able to even determine some basic information about those utility poles, including the nearly 2 million maintained by PG&E.

“Where is the pole?” Picker said in outlining the many unanswered questions about the state’s electrical infrastructure. “Who owns the pole, What’s on it? What’s the condition of the pole?”

The commission has begun the task of trying to overcome the information gap to create a centralized database. Meanwhile, regulators have been sounding the alarm about those unknowns.

“Pole problems and violations will cause serious injuries to the public and damage to properties,” one regulator stressed during a briefing to the Public Utilities Commission.

One danger is that poles can rot from the inside out, said Fadi Daye, a supervisor with the commission’s Electric Safety and Reliability Branch, during the commission briefing in May of last year.

Another, Daye told the commission, is that poles can be overloaded with unaccounted for gear, weighing them down.

“That’s a lot of weight, it can act as a sail on a pole in a windy area,” said Picker, who is overseeing regulatory proceedings related to power pole data.

Overloaded poles can snap, causing lines to break and spark. That is what happened with an Edison utility pole in the Canyon Fire in Malibu in October 2007, a fire fueled by the same kind of high winds that whipped through the North Bay.

But in a response to fact finding questions from regulators, PG&E had trouble accounting for exactly what is on power poles, telling regulators this year: “Complete information on all attachments and equipment on poles is unattainable so long as joint owners are not required to provide all parties information on attachment and equipment installations.”

In a statement late Monday, the company said it welcomes any effort to track what equipment is on its power poles as a way to “enhance public safety and reliability of utility service.” PG&E went on to say, “With our constant focus on the safety of the public and our workforce, we share a commitment with the Commission and all California energy companies to ensure the ongoing safety of our infrastructure.”

Mark Toney, executive director for the ratepayer advocacy group, TURN, says it is too early to say whether power poles are to blame for the recent fires, but the risk is real.

“We just don’t know,” Toney said Monday. “What we do know is pole safety is incredibly critical right now and that the state and all the utility companies, both the telephone and the energy companies need to work together to make sure we have safer poles all throughout California."

A second person has been charged in a June shootout incident in Hartford.

Thirty-one-year-old Edgardo Montanez faces charges of criminal attempted assault, criminal possession of a firearm, weapons in a motor vehicle, unlawful discharge of a firearm, risk of injury to a minor and criminal mischief.

According to police, on June 23 units responded to the area of Park Street and Hungerford Street after an officer heard gunfire. Police found six .380 caliber shell casings and property damage to the Best Barber Shop at 563 Park Street. Investigators determined there had been a shootout at the location.

Police previously arrested one of the suspected shooters, identified as Hector Rios-Pabon. During the course of the investigation, they identified Montanez as the second shooter and obtained an arrest warrant. On Monday, Montanez surrendered himself to police and was taken into custody without incident. He is being held on a $450,000 bond.

Wethersfield High School was evacuated Tuesday morning due to a freon leak, according to the Wethersfield Fire Department.

Fire officials said there was a Freon leak in a classroom and the building was evacuated around 9 a.m. The leak was secured and the building is being ventilated. Students are expected to return to class shortly.

A 15-year-old boy crashed a Mercedes into a tree in Tolland just before 1:30 a.m. Tuesday and he and another 15-year-old were transported to Connecticut Children’s Medical Center after the crash to be treated for minor injuries, according to state police.

Police said they responded to a dirt section near 603 Shenipsit Lake Road at 1:23 a.m. after a speeding driver going south crossed into the northbound lane and the 1984 Mercedes he was driving sideswiped a tree.

Police said both teens sustained minor injuries.

In the state of Connecticut, a 16- or 17-year-old must get a learner’s permit before practicing driving.

The driver was charged with reckless driving, operating a motor vehicle without a license and risk of injury to a child.

He was issued a juvenile summons and is due to appear in Rockville Juvenile Court on Oct. 26.

More than 1,200 Cigna employees volunteered on Tuesday to package non-perishable food for people in Puerto Rico affected by Hurricane Maria.

Cigna worked with Feeding Children Everywhere, a charity group created after the devastating earthquake in Haiti. Last year they packaged and shipped food to Kenya. After having permitting issues this year, they decided to send the food elsewhere. That is when they immediately thought of Puerto Rico, where people are struggling for basic necessities like food, water and electricity.

"For Feeding the Children, to be able to survive as an organization, we need to have partners such as Cigna. To date we have packaged 1.9 million [meals] and after today we’re going to be at 2.2 million meals over a five year period with Cigna. So it’s just tremendous for us," said Kent Zweifel, the Vice President of Strategic Partnerships.

Each bag contains six servings of lentils, rice, dehydrated vegetables and salt. Cigna employees packaged 336,000 meals.

"It’s quite amazing. I think it’s a good thing we’re able to help so many people," said Khristina Surgeon, a Cigna employee from Wethersfield.

"Where else can you take an hour from your desk and have that kind of impact. So it resonates. People come back year after year and they have a tremendous amount of fun with it," said Judy Hartling, a Civic Affairs Senior Specialists for Cigna.

Police have finally corraled an elusive cow at a Brooklyn park. 

The NYPD says the male bull calf was first spotted on the loose late Tuesday morning, before it made its way into a park near Prospect Park Expressway. 

Despite several attempts by police to corner the cow on the field, the animal managed to keep sprinting off. 

A crowd of onlookers outside the field swelled in a matter of under an hour, Chopper 4 shows. The cow wandered around, staring back at the people and occasionally breaking into a jog. At one point, police tried to corner the cow by putting up soccer nets but the cow just ran through them, knocking down the goal posts.  

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"You don't see this every day in Brooklyn, a bull in Prospect Park," said Brandon Simmons. "It's just crazy." 

The NYC Parks Department got in on the bovine hype, tweeting jokingly, "Hey, has anyone seen a cow?" 

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Finally, at around 1:15 p.m., the NYPD managed to tranquilize the bull calf and put it into a Mounted Unit horse trailer. It was taken to Animal Care Centers of NYC with the help of SPCA, and will be cared for until a new home is found, the NYPD later tweeted. 

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It's not clear where the animal came from. Police believe it may have escaped from a building on 16th Street and Fourth Avenue, though they're still trying to confirm that.

"Hopefully he has a second chance at life," said Jody Cook-Tesoriero, one of the bystanders. 

Earlier this year, another New York City cow made national headlines when it escaped a Queens slaughterhouse and led police on a wild, hours-long chase through the neighborhood. 

And in 2016, former "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart rescued a bull that escaped another slaughterhouse in Queens before being lassoed and tranquilized by police. 

The bull died hours later. 

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A Twitter account linked to former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci's tweeted out a poll Tuesday questioning how many Jews were killed in the Holocaust. 

The tweet, from The Scaramucci Post, gave four options and asks: "How many Jews were killed in the Holocaust?"

The poll was quickly pulled after backlash and reports it had not been cleared by Scaramucci who was traveling. Lance Laifer, described as a former hedge fund manager from Long Island in a GQ profile, accepted responsibility for the poll.

The Scaramucci Post is a new media venture fronted by the former White House communications director. Last month he posted of the venture on his social media and encouraged followers to follow its Twitter and Instagram accounts.

Although the poll was pulled there was swift rebuke from those who labeled it anti-Semitic.

"This Twitter poll on the Holocaust was beyond offensive," wrote Anti-Defamation League director and CEO Jonathan Greenblatt. "Good to see it taken down. Should not have been posted in the first place."

An injured man was found on Main Street in Ansonia early Tuesday morning, and police are investigating whether he is connected to an attempted burglary at the Ansonia Mini-Mart.

Police said they responded to a report of someone trying to break into the store at 147 Main Street around 3:30 a.m. The first officer on scene observed a van speeding away from the scene and found a man down in the road.

The man was suffering a head injury and was rushed to the hospital. Police are trying to determine if the man is connected to the van.

The vehicle was found abandoned a short distance away. It had been reported stolen out of Bridgeport.

Anyone with information on this incident should contact the Officers spotted a van speeding away from the Ansonia Police Department at 203-735-1885.

The state Office of Consumer Counsel announced Tuesday that it is working with the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) into an investigation into alleged market abuse and price fixing by Eversource and Avangrid.

The PURA investigation began when a recent report by university researchers working with the Environmental Defense Fund alleged that the local companies run by Eversource and AVANGRID, which include Yankee Gas, Connecticut Natural Gas and Southern Connecticut Gas, intentionally manipulated the market to create shortage conditions and raise gas prices.

The report estimates this caused a 38 percent increase in the average gas price and a 20 percent increase in the average electricity price in New England over the three-year period studied.

Eversource called the report a "complete fabrication" and defended their operations.

"The underlying concept is not only false and misleading, but concerningly irresponsible as it lacks any understanding of how gas procurement actually works. Our gas distribution business is carefully regulated and the gas supply we purchase for our customers is a strict pass through cost – meaning we don’t benefit from higher prices derived from withholding. This is well understood in the industry and is further evidence that the report is not credible. We do not engage in any behavior to ‘artificially constrain capacity.’ Our focus and actions are driven by our responsibility to ensure our customers have enough gas – we can’t run the risk that they are left in the cold," wrote Eversource spokesperson Tricia Taskey Modifica in an email to NBC Connecticut.

AVANGRID also responded, writing, in part.

"Our gas distribution companies are obligated to provide reliable natural gas service to all residential customers and others who have contracted for guaranteed “firm” service. We reserve pipeline capacity to help protect customers from interruptions —including during unpredictable, extreme weather conditions. In Connecticut, we are required to serve as the “supplier of last resort” for retail, commercial and industrial natural gas customers interconnected to our gas distribution companies. We rigorously follow all applicable laws and regulations in fulfillment of our overriding obligation to provide reliable service to our customers."

The Northeast Gas Association also responded to the report, calling it misleading and inaccurate. To read their full response, click here.

The investigation is underway.

"These are serious allegations that need to be thoroughly investigated, and I am appreciative that PURA responded promptly by opening this investigation. We actively track the natural gas market and work with fellow state agencies, our utility companies, and other stakeholders to ensure that energy markets work in a fair and transparent manner. While we are generally confident that our markets function as intended, claims of this magnitude must be thoroughly investigated to ensure consumer confidence in the bills they pay," wrote Consumer Counsel Elin Swanson Katz.

The Dow Jones industrial average notched yet another milestone on Tuesday morning, breaking the 23,000 mark for the first time, a record high, CNBC reported.

The 30-stock index was buoyed by better-than-expected results from UnitedHealth Group and Johnson & Johnson. The Dow dropped back under 23,000 as trading continued. It closed at 22,997.

The index has been on a strong run of late, beating 22,000 points in early August.

"Those big, round numbers are getting easier to reach on the Dow on a percentage basis," said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Wunderlich Securities. "That's great because every time we get a milestone like that, it seems like Mainstream America pays more attention to financial markets."

Donald Trump has lost about $600 million since becoming president, at least according to the Forbes list of wealthiest Americans, NBC News reported.

His 92-spot plummet to No. 248 leaves him tied with 27-year-old Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel on the list, out Tuesday. They both have an estimated $3.1 billion.

Trump's wealth has long been a source of contention — he's claimed to be worth $10 billion — but Forbes said it spent months digging through financial disclosure forms and property records and interviewed dozens of people as well.

Trump's wealth took a dip due to "a weakening in the New York City retail and office real estate market," according to a press release.

Former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page has been subpoenaed as part of the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation of Russia's alleged intervention in the 2016 election, a source directly familiar with the matter told NBC News.

The committee expects Page to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights and refuse to answer questions, the source said. Page previously said he would participate in a hearing.

Page, who has repeatedly denied any inappropriate ties to Russia, has drawn scrutiny for meeting with the former Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the Republican National Convention last year.

On Nov. 1, the committee has scheduled an open hearing with social media giants including Twitter, Facebook and Google.

Governor Malloy gave updates on the current status of the state's budget on Tuesday and responded to a memo from the Office of Policy Management (OPM) secretary regarding an independent actuarial analysis.

"We already knew that the illegal pension scheme proposed in the Republican budget would lead to a lengthy legal battle and eventually cost Connecticut taxpayers billions of dollars," Malloy said. "Now, thanks to this analysis, we also know that even a more modest prospective change for employees who are still unvested in 2027 would offer almost no savings at all to the state in the current biennium."

OPM Secretary Ben Barnes wrote that the proposals for 2027 changes in the Republican budget that the governor vetoed would impair the rights of Tier 4 employees. 

"These measures not only would create untenable legal risks for the state," Barnes wrote. "They also drove the calculated actuarial benefit of the changes so that the features of the proposal that were most likely to determined illegal are the features that accounted for most of the purported 'savings'."

A frustrated Malloy on Monday released his fourth version of a state budget proposal, hoping it will motivate the General Assembly to finally come up with a tax-and-spending plan he can sign into law after a months-long impasse.

Lawmakers on Tuesday said they expect to give more updates on a potential budget deal at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday.