A 13-year-old girl was shot and injured during a car chase shootout in the Hill in the early hours of Sunday morning.
The victim was a passenger in one of two cars involved in the shooting.
According to an initial email press release sent out at 11:38 a.m. Sunday by New Haven Police Department spokesperson Capt. Rose Dell, at around 2:50 a.m. Sunday, police received a ShotSpotter notification of six rounds fired in the area of 103 Davenport Ave. “Moments later, the NHPD was contacted by Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) security regarding a person shot in the parking lot of the YNHH Pediatric entrance.”
Responding officers found a crime scene “by the front entrance of YNHH Pediatrics, where four fired cartridge casings were found. Yale-New Haven Hospital staff brought the injured individual, a 13-year-old female, to the pediatric emergency room, where her injuries were deemed non-life threatening. No other individuals at the hospital were involved in this incident.”
Dell continued: “Detectives responded to the scene and viewed video surveillance of the incident. The footage captured two involved vehicles: a silver Kia SUV and a black Hyundai Elantra. The vehicles were located by patrol officers unoccupied at the intersection of Asylum Street and Sylvan Avenue, with their lights on and running. Both vehicles, which were found to be unreported stolen vehicles, were seized for processing.”
In a subsequent email press release about this same incident sent out at 6:13 p.m. on Sunday, Dell wrote: “Detectives have determined that the shooting was not a deliberate attack on the hospital or its personnel. Instead, video surveillance footage revealed that two vehicles were chasing each other near Howard Avenue and Park Street. One of the vehicles fired shots at the other, hitting a 13-year-old female passenger in the process. The victim was then dropped off at Yale pediatric hospital, where she received medical attention. Her injuries are said to be non-life threatening, and she has since been released from the hospital.”
She wrote that city Police Chief Karl Jacobson has met with the Yale Police Department and Protective Services of Yale New Haven Hospital “to ensure the safety of everyone in and around the hospital. He has also promised to bring the offenders to justice, stating: ‘We will not accept that a thirteen-year-old was shot in our city.’
According to a separate email press release Dell sent out at around noon on Monday, the police department’s dispatch center received a 911 call on Sunday at around 7 p.m. that “a male was in the roadway on Spring Street near Howard Avenue suffering from what appeared to be stab wounds.” Patrol officers responded and found the victim unconscious at the scene. He was transported to Yale New Haven Hospital and listed in “critical but stable condition.”
Officers subsequently found a crime scene on the sidewalk outside the fire department building at 525 Howard Ave. “Detectives from the Major Crimes Unit and the Bureau of Identification arrived at the location to collect evidence and interview witnesses. They are following up on various leads to determine what led to the stabbing and identify the perpetrator.”
The New Haven Police Department is currently investigating both of these incidents and encourages anyone with information to come forward by contacting the New Haven Police Department Investigative Services Division at (203) 946‑6304 or through the department’s anonymous tip-line at 866 – 888-TIPS (8477).