New Haven’s shooting spree continued, with four separate incidents reported within 24 hours.
Here’s what happened, according to police spokesman Capt. Anthony Duff.
The first occurred at Sunday at 1:52 a.m., at the Best Way Inn at 45 Pond Lily Avenue. Someone shot a woman in the leg; Duff called the injury non-life-threatening.
Next, emergency responders found a 41-year-old East Haven man shot in the torso in Blake Rink’s rear parking lot on State Street. The man is in the hospital in critical condition. The shooting is believed to have involved a robbery.
At 11:55 p.m., someone shot a 30-year-old man in the chest, and someone shot a 26-year-old man several times in the lower torso, outside a home on Greenwich Avenue between Third and Fourth streets. Bullets struck multiple parked vehicles as well. “Detectives believe several gunmen fled in a white car that matches an unoccupied vehicle found just before 2 a.m. when New Haven Fire extinguished a suspicious auto fire on Huntington Road,” Duff wrote in a release.
The fourth shooting occurred early Monday. At 12:55 a.m., a 27-year-old man walked into the Yale New Haven Hospital St. Raphael Campus emergency room with a gunshot wound to the pelvic area after, he said, having been shot at Shelton Avenue near Read Street. “A short time later, a 29 year old pistol permit holder called 911 to report he had discharged his handgun during an attempted robbery at Shelton Avenue and Read Street. The New Haven man is cooperating with the ongoing investigation,” Duff wrote.
The four incidents capped a busy week of shootings.
On Friday night, someone was shot to death (read about that here), and, in a separate incident, a bullet grazed the head of a 45-year-old woman sitting on her Quinnipiac Avenue front porch. “Investigators learned the woman was sitting on her front porch when a gunman in the roadway fired multiple times at the residence,” Duff wrote. He described her wound as non-threatening.
Quinnipiac Avenue was also the site of a shooting Thursday of 20-year-old man, in the ankle, in a parking lot, around 2:23 a.m.
Last Monday, an 18-year-old Naugatuck woman riding in a car on Grand Avenue was shot in the head around 1 a.m. by someone who was on foot and fired into the vehicle, then fled.
The police department did not report any shootings on Tuesday or Wednesday.