Hamden Police
A teenager pointed the above object at at two women. They assumed it was a gun.
Three teens approached the two women at a Lexington Street residence in Hamden while one of the teens held the above object Saturday around 12:30 a.m.
The teen pointing the object demanded the women’s belongings, according to Hamden police spokesperson Capt. Ronald Smith. The teens made off with a pocketbook.
“Moments later,” Smith wrote in a release, “Officer Luis Rivera observed three teenaged males running through yards on Bradley Avenue. Officer Rivera located one of the males hiding in a backyard, under a stairway.”
That person, who is 13 years old, was holding the object — which looked like a Sig Sauer firearm. It in fact turned out to be a facsimile bb gun.
The police arrested the 13-year-old, who lives in New Haven, on charges of carrying a facsimile firearm and criminal trespass. Released to his mother’s custody, he is scheduled to appear in New Haven’s juvenile court “at a later date and time.”
The other two teens involved got away.
In a separate incident, a man was shot in the arm after shots were fired at Morse Street and Winchester Avenue Monday around 12:45 a.m. Someone drove the victim to the hospital in a silver Audi believed to have been involved in the incident, according to Smith, who stated the victim has not cooperated with police.