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Sister Flees Bullets; Brother Chases Shooter

by Thomas MacMillan | Mar 16, 2010 2:31 pm

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After a woman fled with her baby from whizzing bullets, her brother jumped in a car and followed the people that had shot at her.

Here’s what happened, according to police spokesman Officer Joe Avery:

Just before 5 p.m. on Monday afternoon, a woman was about to drive off in her black Cadillac Escalade on the Boulevard when she heard shots fired and bullet whizzed just over her head. The bullets had been fired from a two-tone 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee with CT plates 612-XUO. The woman got out of her car, grabbed her 11-month-old daughter, and ran into a house. Her brother jumped in the driver’s seat and drove after the shooter’s vehicle, which was driving away. Witnesses later told police that passengers in the Jeep fired on the Escalade while the vehicles were driving near Boulevard and North Frontage Road.

In other police news, according to Avery:

Two people were robbed on their front porch by an armed cyclist. At 9:28 p.m. on Monday, a man in a black ski mask on a blue and gold mountain bike rolled up on a porch at 167 Edgewood Ave. He asked the two people sitting on the porch for drugs. When they said no, he pulled out a black semi-automatic handgun, pointed it at the victims and said, “Give me what you got.” The two people handed over a purple iPod, a black Sidekick cell phone, and $1.50 in change. The robber rode off west on Edgewood.

2 Tuesday Shooting

Police reported on Tuesday that a man was shot on Lilac Street at 12:44 p.m. The wound was not life-threatening. The victim was transported to Yale-New Haven Hospital for treatment.

Then at 1:48 p.m., police responded to a report of gunshots on Derby Avenue. They found a man who said he’d been shot behind a building at 17 Norton St. He was treated for non-life-threatening injuries at the Hospital of St. Raphael while cops investigated the scene.

Serial Rapist Still Sought

Police are still searching for the man responsible for a string of sexual assaults along the East Coast, including one in New Haven in 2007. Police announced on Tuesday that the Washington Post has created a multimedia story about the investigation, featuring interviews with New Haven’s Sgt. Martin Dadio and Lt. Julie Johnson. See it here.

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posted by: DKR on March 16, 2010  3:07pm

just another day at the office….!!

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