New Haven police reported three more shootings, leading to six in the first seven days of 2022.
None of the victims had life-threatening injuries, according to police spokesperson Officer Scott Shumway.
Here’s what happened, according to Shumway:
A 16-year-old male was shot on Foxon Street, between Quinnipiac Avenue and Essex Street Friday night between 7:30 and 8.
A night earlier, a 48-year-old Stratford man walked into the hospital a little before 8:30 after getting shot on Poplar Street, between Chatham Street and Lombard Street.
Two New Haven men, aged 20 and 21 years old, were shot on Crescent Street, between Colony Road and Ellsworth Avenue, Wednesday at around 1 a.m.
Click here to read about the year’s first three shootings.
Mayor Justin Elicker declared a week earlier that the NHPD made progress on gun violence and was“able to bend the curve downwards and save lives” in 2021 because the number of reported shootings dropped from 121 to 110 from the year before (compared to 78 in 2019 and 50 in 2018). The number of homicides rose from 20 to 25 in 2021; police made arrests in three of the 25 homicides. (Click here for a story comparing that solve rate to that of peer Connecticut departments.)
Ted Littleford