Five adults and three children temporarily lost their homes Monday afternoon after a fire, “mostly likely accidental,” burned part of the outside of their multi-family home at 16 Read St., according to police spokesman Officer David Hartman.
Firefighters responded to the fire at 5:15 p.m. and hat it under control in “about 30 minutes,” according to Hartman. No firefighters were injured. Investigators are looking into the fire’s cause.
At around the same time, in a separate matter across town in Fair Haven, a 17 year-old boy was shot in the arm after, he said, he tried to get away from three men trying to rob him near the intersection of Main and Market streets, Hartman said. The boy was treated at the hospital for his “non-life-threatening wound.” No descriptions yet of suspects.
Perhaps the perception task force could look into how helpful it really is to print a shooting victim's version of events. City residents know that these accounts of groups of armed men randomly robbing and shooting young men are most likely fabrications invented to protect the innocence of the victim or the assailant. People from out of town probably don't realize this.