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Officer Tyler Evans: "With a scene like that, my main thing is: Stay calm."
A young woman who had reportedly struggled with thoughts of hurting herself — whose father had reached out to the cops for help — ran down Davenport Avenue away from Officer Tyler Evans.
She then turned, took a knife from the front of her pants, and plunged it into her own body.
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A 13-year-old girl was shot and injured during a car chase shootout in the Hill in the early hours of Sunday morning.
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Lakisha Franklin (right) at Wednesday's presser.
“You see something, you say something. You know something, you say something. You have to. It’s not cool to not say something. It’s cool to share.”
With those words, Lakisha Franklin thanked the Fair Haven community members who came forward to help the police swiftly arrest her brother Robert’s alleged murderer — as she encouraged others across the city to do the same if they have information that could solve crimes and prevent future violence.
Continue reading ‘After Quick Arrest, "Healing Process Can Begin"’
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A man was stabbed in the neck outside of a State Street soup kitchen, and an arrest warrant is under review by the state for the individual who attacked him.
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by | Jul 24, 2023 12:53 pm | Comments (8)
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Omar Kh with Mohamad Hamasa on Saturday: Looking to flip or rent.
Three months after prevailing at a West Hills foreclosure auction for a house he had planned to move his family into — but which he now intends to rent or flip — Omar Kh came back to New Haven to help a close friend and fellow New Yorker try to get his own foot in the door of investing in rundown, tax-foreclosed local real estate.
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Chief of Operations Tom Taffe (above) at Thursday's presser: We "deescalated" at arrest scene. His MTA officers look on (below).
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Passengers finally allowed off trains an hour after July 5 shooting at Union Station.
They knew a child was in the house. And a gun. So cops descending on the home of an accused train-platform shooter took extra care when they came to arrest him.
Continue reading ‘Alleged Union Station Shooter Arrested; MTA Cops Offer Some Details’
by | Jul 19, 2023 5:03 pm | Comments (4)
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Lead Detective Conklin: 80+% clearance record.
Several people said they saw someone stab a 49-year-old man to death during a fight at a Fair Haven intersection. Two separate cameras caught the stabbing on video.
Within three days police arrested the alleged killer.
Continue reading ‘Tech, Witnesses Lead To Swift Murder Arrest’
by | Jul 18, 2023 3:41 pm | Comments (32)
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Alternative to arrests: COMPASS crew members Yichu Xu and Nanette Campbell help out Ollie Cooper at crisis team's launch last fall.
How should New Haven police respond to the use and sale of drugs?
New Haven’s mayoral candidates are putting forward a variety of answers to that question, propelling the issue of when (and whether) to arrest people into this year’s campaign.
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Board of Police Commissioners weighs the specs question.
Officer Evan Kelly and Det. Paul Vakos won’t have to dip into their own pockets to cover the full costs of replacing two pairs of eyeglasses each has broken over the past year while on the job for the New Haven Police Department.
Continue reading ‘Cop Commission Q: How Much To Replace Broken Glasses?’
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Carmon, at left, walks out of court a free man after dismissal of his case.
Adam Carmon is suing the city of New Haven and six former New Haven police officers for the wrongful conviction that imprisoned him for nearly three decades.
Continue reading ‘Carmon Files Suit Over Wrongful Conviction’
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Chief Jacobson, now 1 year in to his tenure as New Haven's top cop: "We've done things to show that we care about this work being done."
City police have received nearly 12,000 more calls for service so far this year than at this same point in 2022.
To Police Chief Karl Jacobson, that number is one among many that shows that New Haven cops are getting better at what they do — and winning more public trust along the way.
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City police found the dead body of a 19-year-old in the parking lot of Career High School on Sunday morning following an apparent fatal overdose.
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by | Jul 10, 2023 11:16 am | Comments (11)
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Daniel Marca (right) and fam: "We really just wanted a home in which our family can grow up and live for a long time.”
Looking forward to new memories to be made as new homeowners in the Hill, Daniel Marca and María González and their two young children explored the perimeter of an empty and partially boarded up house on Tyler Street that they won after ending on top of a crowded tax foreclosure auction.
Continue reading ‘Family Prevails At Fixer-Upper's Foreclosure’
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A 49-year-old man named Sean Peterson died after being shot in an Acura MDX Friday — and police have arrested the vehicle’s driver for allegedly pulling the trigger.
Continue reading ‘Man Shot Dead In Car; Driver Arrested For Murder’
by | Jul 7, 2023 2:37 pm | Comments (38)
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Ronisha Baskin and her four-year-old, crashing with grandma in Waterbury.
Ronisha Baskin didn’t know how to tell her 14-year-old daughter that the Housing Authority of New Haven had evicted them. “I didn’t even know what to say.” She could not find the words to explain that a lack of housing options would force them to split up across different cities.
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Goffe Terrace looking west towards Winthrop on April 1.
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Police Chief Jacobson and Mayor Elicker at Thursday's presser.
City police have arrested a 40-year-old New Havener for the shooting deaths of fellow city residents Jonathan Garcia, 27, and Marquis Darnell McNeill, 40, on Winthrop Avenue in early April.
Continue reading ‘Suspect Arrested In Winthrop Double Homicide’
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Passengers leaving Union Station at 10:40 p.m. two hours after shooting.
Union Avenue blocked off with police and firefighters on scene after Wednesday night's shooting.
Michal, Monika, and Zofia Taratajcio, visiting New Haven from Poland: "Suddenly we noticed police running up and down with their guns and dogs.”
Union Station was locked down and passengers kept on board for more than an hour Wednesday night after a shooting took place on a platform.
Continue reading ‘Man Shot At Union Station; Passengers Held On Trains; Shooter Flees’
by | Jul 5, 2023 3:56 pm | Comments (31)
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Abdussabur on Wednesday: Check out the stats.
A retired police sergeant-turned-mayoral candidate has a plan for beefing up the city’s walking beats: hiring back fellow retired cops to pound the pavement, without a gun or the power to arrest — and with a civilian “ambassador” by their side.
Continue reading ‘Abdussabur Eyes Retired Cops For Walking Beats’
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Ofc. Diaz, Sgt. Segui, and Ofc. Pressley lifting Cox into wheelchair on June 19, 2022.
The Elicker administration plans to borrow and transfer up to $16 million from the city’s latest budget surplus to cover the uninsured portion of a $45 million police-misconduct-and-paralysis settlement.
Continue reading ‘City Seeks $16M In Borrowing, Surplus Bucks To Cover Cox Settlement’
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Eddie Eckhaus: "I won't be bullied" out of the neighborhood.
It’s clear who didn’t break the window of Eddie Eckhaus’s soon-to-open Whalley Avenue felafel restaurant: A man named Larry.
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Ofc. Diaz, Sgt. Segui, and Ofc. Pressley lifting Cox into wheelchair on June 19, 2022.
Police commissioners voted to fire Sgt. Betsy Segui and Officer Oscar Diaz Wednesday night, making them the third and fourth New Haven cops to lose their jobs for their roles in the mishandling of Richard “Randy” Cox, a now-37-year-old Black New Havener who suffered paralyzing injuries while in police custody.
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A 41-year-old West Haven man named Jimmie Lee Wilson died following a wrong-way, two-car crash on the Q Bridge early Wednesday morning.
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Ocean renters on Whitney Ave Tuesday afternoon.
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Ocean's Shmuel Aizenberg and attorney Ian Gottlieb in court Tuesday morning.
Renters at a West River apartment complex gathered at City Hall to form New Haven’s second officially recognized tenants union — and then rallied outside of Ocean Management’s offices to demand collective bargaining around rents and maintenance — on the very same day that their landlord showed up in court to be prosecuted for six new housing-code-violation cases.
Continue reading ‘Tenants Union Formed; Landlord Back In Court’
by | Jun 27, 2023 9:37 am | Comments (2)
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The Edgewood yeshiva at 765 Elm St.
Eliyahu Mirlis is one step closer to gaining control of the former yeshiva building at Elm and Norton Streets — now that a state court has rejected a foreclosure-case appeal pursued by a nonprofit controlled by the man convicted of raping him, imprisoned Rabbi Daniel Greer.
Continue reading ‘Appeals Court Upholds Yeshiva Foreclosure’
by | Jun 21, 2023 3:12 pm | Comments (10)
New Haven’s police chief has moved to fire an officer who has pleaded guilty to causing a colleague’s death by driving drunk.
Continue reading ‘Chief Moves To Fire Cop Who Drove Drunk In Colleague's Death’