Police Make Arrests in Sledgehammer Attack

New Haven police have arrested four suspects in an attack in March that left a man with severe head trauma. 

Police responded to Cody’s Diner, at 95 Water Street in New Haven, on March 9 after receiving reports of an assault and found a man unresponsive and suffering from severe head trauma.

Police said the crime scene was in the diner parking lot and determined that four men had attacked Joyner, hitting him over the head with a liquor bottle and sledge-type hammer, causing severe brain trauma. The men also attacked the victim's friend.

On June 7, detectives obtained four arrest warrants charging Antonyo Streater, 23, and Cedric Shepard, 21, with assault in the first degree and conspiracy to commit assault in the first degree.

Stephen Outlaw, 22, and Lynwood Dorsey, 24, were charged with conspiracy to commit assault in the first degree.