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Police Monday at shooting scene.
A daylight shooting in the Hill Monday sent a woman to the hospital with serious injuries.
The Monday afternoon shooting occurred on Truman Street.
The victim, a 22-year-old woman, was shot in the head outside her house between 2:30 and 3 p.m. Police said Monday night that she is clinging to life in the hospital.
Hill neighborhood organizer Leslie Radcliffe, who lives on the block, heard the gunshots.
At first she thought it was resumption of the deafening Independence Day fireworks that had plagued the neighborhood until 4 a.m., she told the Independent.
“Then I opened my patio door. I heard people screaming: ‘They shot her! They shot her!’”
Radcliffe crossed the street to the house while dialing 911.
She came upon a horrific scene: The young woman was at the side of her house “laying there” with blood and “pieces of her skull” on the concrete, Radcliffe said. Four or five young people were with on the scene, along with medics.
Radcliffe said she knows and likes the young woman, as well as her mother and her brother, who also live in the house. “She would be on the porch. She would help us unload the car,” she said of the young woman.
Radcliffe was still shaken by the incident as she spoke about it hours later: “I was just calming down from” consoling a ” friend who lost her son” in a recent shooting in Hamden. As a year of incessant gun violence continues.
A previous version of this story incorrectly identified the victim’s age as 24.