New Britain police: Man with previous shooting arrests beat woman during home invasion

A man accused of wounding a bystander during a Hartford shootout in 2019 faces a new assault charge after a New Britain home invasion, police said.

New Britain police said Tyvonne Gooden, 31, of Hartford broke into a local woman’s home and beat her in June. He posted $150,000 bail and is due in Superior Court in New Britain Tuesday on charges of home invasion, second-degree assault, first-degree burglary and disorderly conduct. Gooden, who also has addresses in East Hartford and Manchester, does not have a lawyer listed in court records and could not be reached for comment.

According to the arrest warrant affidavit, New Britain police received a call about an active incident of domestic violence on June 13. When officers arrived, they talked to the woman, who had a golfball-sized knot on her forehead, scrapes on her shoulder and lips and a bruised ankle. She also was experiencing head and neck pain. The person who attacked her was gone.

The woman told police she was lying in bed when Gooden pushed in her air conditioner, came up the stairs, knocked her to the floor and “began to continuously kick and punch her in the head and face,” the warrant said. She felt dizzy and wasn’t sure if she had blacked out during the attack.

The woman also said she and Gooden had argued the night before at a club in Manchester, according to the warrant. Police talked to her about ways to stay safe.

Gooden was arrested Nov. 2, 2020 in connection with a shooting the year before. Police said he was one of two men shooting at each other on Main Street in Hartford on Dec. 22, 2019. A pedestrian who was crossing the street at the time — and apparently wasn’t the intended target — was wounded but survived, police said at the time.

Gooden was charged with first-degree assault and criminal possession of a firearm in that case and is scheduled to appear in Superior Court in Hartford on the charges Nov. 15, court records show.

The shooting arrest wasn’t Gooden’s first. In November 2018, city police and federal probation officers charged him with a 2014 shooting on Park Street in Hartford during which a man was wounded on his ankle.

The charges were dropped after the victim told authorities Gooden was not the shooter and didn’t even have a gun, according to Courant archives.

In 2016, Gooden was sentenced in federal court in Boston for possession with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine in Massachusetts, according to The Associated Press.

He also was sentenced to jail in 2010 after convictions in Superior Court in Hartford for third-degree burglary and violation of probation, according to Courant archives, and again in 2012 for a conviction in Superior Court in Manchester for illegal possession of a weapon in a motor vehicle.

Christine Dempsey may be reached at cdempsey@courant.com