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by Paul Bass | Jul 31, 2007 4:06 pm

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City police are investigating three separate shootings that took place early Tuesday morning and Monday night. Well, they’re doing the best they can. The witnesses aren’t helping.

Here’s the incomplete version of the three separate incidents, based on what the victims told people, according to Officer Joe Avery:

Police came across a 28-year-old Bridgeport man near 211 Humphrey St. around 1:15 a.m. Tuesday. The man had been shot “multiple times.” He said he had been shot during a robbery. He was taken to the hospital, where he was reported in serious condition. Police came across a second 28-year-old Bridgeport man nearby who had been with the other man and fled the scene before being shot. Both men are convicted felons with “extensive criminal histories.” They said they’d been just walking around the area when the robbery and shooting occurred. Beyond that, they’re not cooperating with police.

Neither is a 47-year-old man who was shot an hour earlier at 282 Valley St. He told police he had been sitting in a van when he “heard” two shots, then “realized” he’d been shot. He was treated for non-life-threatening injuries; he was shot in the hand and leg. Police found two shell casings inside the van. Witnesses said they saw someone running from van prior to shooting.

Around 9 p.m. Monday the mother of a 14-year-old called police to say her boy had been shot. The shooting apparently occurred two hours earlier near Dixwell Plaza, where the boy was hanging out near his father’s residence. He came home to his mother’s Hobart Street home and apparently said nothing of the shooting; he’d been shot in the leg. His mother discovered the wound two hours later. The boy was treated for non-life-threatening injuries. The Yale Child Study Center offered the family help; the family refused, and the boy was not cooperating with investigators.

Comments

posted by: cedarhillresident on July 31, 2007 5:28pm

Love the pic….so fitting.

So now the PD needs to ask themselves…

The shootings are getting way WAY out of control… what do we do??

HELLO…. I am going to sound like a broken record but….get rid of ALL THE DRUG DEALERS and the rest will follow them out!!!!!!!!!

posted by: Esbe on July 31, 2007 7:23pm

Back when we had real community policing, folks (if not the victim, then someone close to the victim) would often confide in their local beat cop, and so the cops would solve the crime. There was a period in New Haven when almost every murder was solved, but I don’t think that is true now. Now, the poor communities feel alienated from the police, and no one talks.

posted by: charlie on July 31, 2007 7:27pm

Just bump up the sentencing. Make illegal gun possession a 10 year sentence with no parole. Make any kind of assault, shooting, robbery, etc., a 30+ year sentence with no parole. Make murder sentences mandatory 300 years in prison with no parole. Publicize the new mandatory minimum sentences. Make them applicable starting at age 10. I think you’ll see the crime rates drop immediately.

posted by: Soldiers of Good Fortune on July 31, 2007 11:21pm

I agree that this is and has been out of control along time ago.When sending our youth became such a big investment that’s when the issues with our youth really became out of control.We see the lack of real interest in really getting to know what the problems are that these youth face everyday.Let’s spend money on rehabilitation for these kids whenever they experienced any type of trauma.Where is the help for individuals who have been incarcerated?There is enough money in this state to address these issues.Most of the kids commiting these crimes have things they deal with on a daily basis,things you or I have never had to face.Let’s be realistic about what the causes of these behaviors stem from and what can we do.Last but not least let’s hold the people who make all the decisions responsible and demand some changes be made.At the end of the day we all may encounter situations that could be prevented just by making a real effort to help each other after all we do all share Gods world.Let it be known that you are someone who cares be the example and leaders we need to save our environment. GOD FIRST Sister Gwen

posted by: cedarhillresident on August 1, 2007 9:17am

Soldiers of Good Fortune

so what do you think is the causes of these behaviors ?

posted by: PEACEONEARTH on August 1, 2007 1:59pm

I AGREE WITH CHARLIE. IF THESE TEENAGERS GET A HIGH AMOUNT OF YEARS WITH NO PAROLE, THIS WILL STOP. THE REASON WHY I SAID TEENAGERS IS BECAUSE THEY ARE THE ONE KILLING THE COMMUNITY. MY FRIEND WAS KILLED TWO MONTHS AGO IN FRONT OF HIS STORE BY A 16 YEAR OLD OVER A GOLD CHAIN. JUST TO THINK THAT HE WAS DOING SOMETHING POSITIVE AND SOMEONE FINISHED HIS DREAM.

I ALWAYS SAID, IF THEY WANT TO SHOOT OR KILL SOMEONE SEND THEM TO IRAQ, I BET THEY WILL NEVER HOLD ANOTHER FIRE ARM IN THEIR HANDS.

posted by: Esbe on August 1, 2007 3:12pm

Charlie—these kids are risking instant death with their current behavior (engaging in shoot-outs in the street.) What punishment are you going to suggest that is worse than instant death? Simply increasing penalties isn’t the answer here. The draconian “Rockefeller” New York drugs laws (close to life in prison for substantial dealing) didn’t work—the dealers were already risking death.

posted by: State St. Resident on August 1, 2007 9:25pm

Esbe, I do think that much more jail time will help with reducing crime. If every dealer was doing life, they would not have the chance to get out of jail and become a repeat offender.

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