New Haven Independent

That’s the way police described an incident that occurred early Sunday morning. Here’s what happened, according to police spokesman Officer Joe Avery:

A woman walked into Hospital of St. Raphael just before 3 a.m. on Sunday with gunshot wound to her left forearm and a graze on her stomach. She told police that she had been in the back seat of a car and that someone in a black BMW had been driving recklessly around it. Someone in her car had yelled at the BMW, which pulled alongside it at Orange Avenue and the Boulevard. The BMW’s front seat passenger fired one shot, striking the woman in the backseat. Police located a shell casing on Orange Avenue.

In other police news, according to Avery:

A 20 year-old man was walking on Chapel Street near Hotchkiss Street at 8 p.m. on Saturday when he heard a gunshot. He realized he had been shot in the shin. He did not see who shot him. He was taken to Yale-New Haven Hospital for treatment.

Two men robbed the Sing-Wah Chinese restaurant on Whalley Avenue at 10:38 p.m. on Saturday. They entered wearing masks. One held the clerk at gunpoint while another emptied the register.

A security guard reported a suspicious package in the parking lot of 112 Amity Rd at 6:49 p.m. on Sunday. The police bomb squad performed a “render safe procedure” of the package, which turned out to be an empty suitcase.

ShotSpotter, the police department’s gunshot detection system, reported shots fired at 31 Dickerman St. at 10:52 p.m on Saturday night. Police found a vehicle with a window shot out at the location. A man approached them and said that he had been struck by something at the same time as the shots were fired. EMTs checked out the man, who had “only a welt/bruise on his buttocks.” Police could not determine if he had been struck by a ricochet from the bullet or something else.

At 12:08 a.m.on Sunday morning a bus driver reported that a passenger said he had a gun. Officers arrived and confronted the 38-year-old man, who became combative and tried to run. Officers tased the man, to no effect. Cops eventually subdued the man and arrested him.

A man reported an attempted robbery at 2:12 a.m. on Sunday. He said three men had approached him on Read Street and Winchester Avenue and asked him for a light. He continued walking, looked back and saw one of the men pull out a black handgun. The man ran to Ford Street where he hid in the bushes, called a taxi, and then called the police.

Police responded at 11:15 p.m. on Sunday to a report of a man entering through the side window of a church on West Street and emerging with a keyboard. Police questioned a man walking down West Street with a keyboard, but it was not the suspect.

On Monday, officers responding to reports of theft from vehicles found that the victims were holding the suspect for police. The 20-year-old man was placed in a cruiser, where he began kicking the right rear window, “bending the frame and pushing out the window.” An officer used his taser on the man.

A victim reported a robbery at 8:28 p.m on Monday. He said we was approached near the corner of George and Dwight Streets by two men, one of whom had a gun. The victim gave up his wallet, which was later recovered on the ground.

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