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Victim Pedals To Hospital

by Melissa Bailey | January 23, 2009 12:56 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

A shooting victim showed up on his bicycle to the St. Raphael’s hospital at 9:45 p.m. Thursday, according to police spokesman Officer Joe Avery. He was suffering from a non-life threatening gunshot wound to his left leg.

A few hours earlier, police responded to a report of gunshots at 5 p.m. at Shepard and Read Streets. Cops found bullet shell casings there, but no victims.

The victim told police he was afraid to go to the hospital.

Cops later identified him as a 26-year-old man with an outstanding warrant on a firearms charge, Avery said. The warrant carried a $75,000 bond.

Shots Fired

Neighbors reported a flurry of five to six gunshots Thursday night in downtown Westville, outside the Owls Nest bar at 3 Tour Ave. The shots were reported at 10:15 p.m.; no ballistic evidence was found and no gunshot victims were found at the city’s two hospitals.

Crime Maps

Over the past two days, there were five car break-ins and one car theft in the East Rock area, and a handful of such incidents scattered across the city.

Click here and here for a list of crimes on Jan. 21 and 22. Click on the images below to see those crimes placed on a city-wide map.

For block-by-block year-to-date crime info, and daily crime maps, check the Independent’s crime log.

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Posted by: DAFeder | January 23, 2009 1:10 PM

Did he wear a helmet?

David

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