(Update) A 17-year-old New Havener is in the hospital in stable condition after getting shot in the Cedar Hill neighborhood.
The teen was shot outside a home on State Street near Rock Street on Easter Sunday shortly after 1 p.m., according to New Haven police spokesman Capt. Anthony Duff.
Duff described the young man’s injuries as life-threatening and his condition as critical earlier Monday. He later sent out an updated release reporting that the victim’s condition had improved to “stable.”
Duff asked witnesses to the shooting to call detectives at (203) 946‑6304.
“Get On The Ground”
In an unrelated case, Hamden police investigators caught up with a 54-year-old Wethersfield man suspected of committed an armed robbery in town.
Hamden police spokesman Capt. Ronald Smith reported Monday that the police have charged the man with first-degree robbery and sixth-degree larceny in connection with the robbery, which took place March 16 at the Clarion Hotel at 2260 Witney Ave.
The man “entered the hotel and approached the clerk. He asked the clerk for change of a one-dollar bill. When the clerk opened the cash register, [the man] pointed a firearm at him, while ordering him to ‘get on the ground,’” Smith wrote in a release.
The man made off with an “undisclosed amount of money.” Hamden Detective Joseph Liguori led the investigation, which led to the issuing of a warrant and then the arrest of the man after North Haven police arrested him on unrelated charges.