A 33-year-old man was shot and killed on Bassett Street Friday night.
City police spokesperson Capt. Anthony Duff sent out an email press release Saturday afternoon about the fatal shooting.
He wrote that, at approximately 10:39 p.m. Friday, city police and firefighters responded to a ShotSpotter alert and 911 calls of a person shot outside a residence on Bassett Street between Shelton Avenue and Goodyear Street.
New Haven Fire Department and American Medical Response personnel treated the gunshot victim at the scene, he wrote. An ambulance then transported the 33-year-old man to the hospital where he was pronounced deceased.
Detectives later canvassed the Newhallville neighborhood, he said.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the New Haven Police Department at 203 – 946-6304. Callers may remain anonymous.
Friday night’s shooting death was the 19th homicide in the city so far this year, according to the police department’s latest Compstat crime report.
Pedestrian Struck At Quinnipiac And Foxon
Friday night also saw a pedestrian struck by a motor vehicle and sustained life threatening injuries at the intersection of Quinnipiac Avenue and Foxon Boulevard at around 8:22 p.m., Duff wrote in a separate press releases.
Here’s what he said happened.
A 21-year-old New Haven woman was driving a Ford Explorer Sport Track pickup truck and traveling southbound in a left turn only lane on Quinnipiac Avenue.
As the truck approached the Foxon Boulevard intersection, Duff wrote, the pedestrian walked from the sidewalk near the gas station driveway at 1260 Quinnipiac Ave. The pedestrian then walked eastbound into the roadway and the front of the truck struck him.
The truck operator remained at the scene and is cooperating with the investigation, he wrote. No other injuries were reported. Investigators have yet to determine the identity of the pedestrian, who was taken by ambulance to Yale New Haven Hospital and is in critical but stable condition.
The crash remains under investigation by the NHPD Accident Reconstruction Team. Anyone with information is asked to contact the New Haven Police Department at 203 – 946-6316.
I am not brave enough to cross Foxon Boulevard.
It is the most heavily trafficked road in New Haven. That and the disregard for traffic lights and speed restrictions, make it
hostile territory to pedestrians.
This comment is not specific to this incident, just a general observation.