The state’s Department of Emergency Services & Public Protection has confirmed that the human torso cops found inside an abandoned Salvation Army building on George Street “most likely” belonged to the late Ray Roberson, the man whose legs and arms had previously been discovered near the State Street train tracks.
So reported police spokesman Officer David Hartman.
In other police news, according to Hartman:
A 33-year-old New Haven man told police that two robbers, one of them with a handgun, accosted him as he left Toral’s Restaurant at Ferry near Lombard Street at 1:20 a.m. Monday and “marched the victims around the corner to Chatham Street, where two other men joined in on the robbery.” One of the robbers shot the 33-year-old man in the stomach, leaving a “not life-threatening” wound. “It is unclear as to whether the crooks made off with any of the victim’s valuables,” Hartman reported.
A 25-year-old woman told cops arriving at a Garden Street apartment at 8:21 p.m. Friday that her cousin had stabbed her. Her cousin was there and “told the officers” that was true. Cops arrested the cousin, who’s 28. The arrestee told detectives she had been “trying to get her cousin to leave” after an argument in which the victim had been “drunk” and “saying rude things to folks as they passed by.” A young child, present in the apartment where the stabbing subsequently took place, “wasn’t harmed.”