A lot happened between 8 p.m. and 8:25 p.m. Wednesday in Newhallville and contiguous East Rock, which make up the city’s police District 7.
A 8 p.m. two men, one with a silver handgun, stole the pocketbook of a Yale undergraduate on Orange Street near the corner of Lawrence. She wasn’t harmed. They fled.
At 8:05, Officers Matthew Borges and Garry Monk stopped a driver whose car didn’t have lights on. The car’s occupants fled. The officers gave chase. “The guy Borges was going after took him on a run through several back yards before running into Officer Monk, who’d made it to the yard of 704 Winchester Ave.,” reported police spokesman Officer David Hartman. “When the teenager realized he was running toward another Officer, he threw down his handgun. He was apprehended and the gun was recovered. The 17-year-old from New Haven was arrested and charged with several crimes including weapons violations.”
At 8:08 officers responded to a call reporting gunshots on West Read Street. They investigated and concluded the call was a hoax.
At 8:25 two men, one with a silver handgun, stole the wallet of an Albertus Magnus student walking Huntington and Edgehill. She wasn’t harmed. They fled.
That last blurb, the one about the female student being robbed at Edgehill and Huntington, at gun point, that's problematic. I hope there will be increased patrols by NHPD, and Yale PD to that area, during the evening hours and hour before and after the robbery is reported to have occurred. History will show they will continue to rob people in that immediate area, putting the risk that someone can be shot and/or killed, until they are identified and arrested.