A witness reported hearing a woman screaming for help in East Rock Park. Police were told a man entered the park with a female, but left alone.
Police brought in dogs and thermal imaging equipment, but were unable to locate the woman.
Here’s what happened, according to police spokesman Officer Joe Avery:
At around 8:15 p.m. Monday, police received a report that someone heard a woman screaming for help near East Rock Park. The witness told police that a man in a white T‑shirt went into the park with a woman, but came out alone. Officers searched the park with dogs and thermal imaging equipment, but didn’t find anyone. Police stopped several people and took their information.
In other police news, according to Avery:
A man was assaulted and robbed on his porch on Monday night. A 26-year-old man and his roommates were drinking beers on their porch at 265 Lombard St. in Fair Haven just before midnight on Monday. A man approached and asked them if they wanted to buy a “speaker box.” The drinkers declined, but offered the man a beer. The would-be speaker-seller left and returned with another man. The speaker-seller pulled out a gray handgun, pistol-whipped the 26-year-old and took his iPhone.
Shots were heard near 963 Sherman Ave., near the border of Hamden. Hamden police in the area reported hearing about five shots. Police found two shell casings in the middle of the street.
Cliff-Hanger
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A woman visiting Westville Cemetery backed up a little too far on Tuesday morning, and found her car teetering on the edge of a hill on Whalley Avenue.
Just before noon, the elderly woman, who declined to give her name, was out of her car and being helped by a half-dozen passersby. She said she had been backing up and didn’t see the drop. She stopped the car before it rolled down the hill and crashed into the metal fence around the cemetery. She wasn’t able to drive the car back up the hill. No one was hurt.
Michelle Caldwell said she had been driving by and spotted the car. “She needed help!”
Caldwell said she noticed it was “an older person” who needed assistance. She was one of several drivers who stopped and called police.
By 12:15 p.m., police had arrived and a tow truck was on the way.
