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by Staff | Feb 27, 2012 7:30 am

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Paul Bass File Photo A Wallingford cop had a tip about a double shooting that took place in New Haven’s Fair Haven neighborhood. The cop forwarded the tip to New Haven’s police department.

In the past that tip—and the investigation into that shooting—would have remained in the pile of cases handled by New Haven detectives. It would have competed for attention with murders.

No longer. In February New Haven launched a new “shooting task force.” Investigators from the state’s attorney’s office and suburban forces set up shop inside 1 Union Ave. to take over important but not top-priority weapons cases in an effort to get more of a handle on violence in the city. (Read about that here.)

The Wallingford tip led to the task force’s first arrest Friday.

The shooting took place at Poplar and Chatham streets at 2:30 a.m. on Dec. 17. Three men in a car confronted a 23-year-old man on the street. One pulled out a gun and started firing, hitting both the person who’d been confronted as well as a 29-year-old man nearby. Cops found shell casings at the scene. The two men were treated in the hospital and released.

Wallingford Police Detective Shawn Fairbrother sent over his tip in January. The next month the new task force ran with it, along with the Wallingford cops. Their work bore fruit with Thursday’s arrest of a 23-year-old Wallingford man on assault and weapons charges. Police also had a warrant to search his home. They said they found “a 40 caliber Glock with an obliterated serial number and a Stag Arms 5.56mm assault-type rifle” there. Wallingford police charged the man with dealing narcotics, as well.

“I am very grateful to our partners in the Chief State’s Attorney’s office, the State’s Attorney’s office, the state Police, the Department of Corrections, the Department of Probation, the Hamden Police Department, and the West Haven Police Department, who have come together under the command of the New Haven Police Department Investigative Services Division for their early success combating violence in the city of New Haven,” New Haven Chief Dean Esserman stated in a press release.

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posted by: power washing in ct on February 27, 2012 12:29am

Wow, I hope that helps stop some of the shootings. I know there are shooting people don’t even report because if no one is hit the police have a tough time finding any one

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