Man Shot In Beaver Hill

IMG_0250.jpgAndy was up on a ladder, painting the Diamond Ridge Apartments when a bullet flew by below, striking a man in the leg. It was scary,” said the painter. I was ready to jump on the roof!”

Andy said he and his buddies were busy painting around 2 p.m. when he saw a man run past him on the sidewalk on Diamond Street near the intersection with Dyer, in the Beaver Hill neighborhood.

The kid was running down the street, then we heard a gunshot — pow!” The man went down, struck in the leg.

The shooter appeared to be a teenaged boy, said Andy. A detective on the scene, walking with a big walking stick tracing the victim’s path, declined comment.

Sgt. David Taft, who was also on the scene, said the victim was a 30-year-old man from New Haven. He was shot after getting into a dispute with an unidentified male,” said Taft. The victim suffered non-life threatening injuries from a gunshot wound to the leg.

IMG_0249.JPGA few doors down, Dean Perkins (pictured at left, with Chris Larose and Gary Pope) pulled up to his Diamond Street home, less than an hour after the shooting. Yellow tape had been taken down, and the street had been freshly washed.

That’s the world we live in,” said Perkins of the shooting. That’s what happens when you have a whole bunch of teensters trying to be something they’re not. They’re fighting over a beef that started before they were born. They’re fighting for nothing.”

Perkins said that’s why he and his fraternity brothers moved into town a month ago — to clean up the neighborhood.” They’re seniors at Southern. They don’t rep a hood, said Gary Pope at right (pictured wielding fraternity hand sign) — they just rep Phi Beta Sigma.

Anyone with information on the incident is encouraged to call police at 946‑6316.

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