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Cops at shooting scene.
Police have detained a suspect in a shooting that took place Tuesday in New Haven.
The shooting occurred around 1:15 p.m. on Huntington Street between Newhall and Shepard, according to police. Someone shot a 20-year-old New Haven man there, and he now has life-threatening injuries.
Plainclothes officers happened to be in the neighborhood at the time of the shooting, according to Acting Police Chief Otoniel Reyes. He said the officers were able immediately to identify the suspected shooter’s vehicle. He fled, and officers chased him, Reyes said.
While fleeing, the suspect crashed his car through an Albertus Magnus College fence at Ogden and Prospect streets, where police detained him “without incident,” Reyes said.
“I commend the hard work our intelligence division and officers do to mitigate the violence in the city,” Reyes said. “It was through the good intelligence and being the right place at the right time that they were able to get on this guy quickly.”
The arrestee is a 22-year-old New Haven man. Police charged him with first-degree assault as well as weapons violations. He is being held on $750,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday, according to police spokesman Capt. Anthony Duff.