Police reported two violent clashes outside downtown clubs this weekend.
Here’s what they said happened:
Around 2 a.m. Sunday Center Street Lounge was closing. A brawl erupted out on Orange Street among departing patrons. Gunfire broke out. A 26 year-old New Haven man was shot in the stomach and died of his injuries. A 25 year-old man from Stamford was shot in the leg and treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
Officers responded to brawl inside Hammer Jak’s bar at 201 Crown St. at 1:22 a.m. Saturday. They found three people injured during the fight. Two New Haven men, ages 21 and 20, were stabbed, as was a 20 year-old man from New Rochelle. None of the injuries were considered life-threatening.
That wasn’t the end of it: While offers “were continuing their investigation into the incident, a fight broke out at Yale-New Haven Hospital.” A 19 year-old New Haven man was stabbed in the shoulder. The same man “began to walk out of the ER, when he assaulted” a 25 year-old New Rochelle man “in front of the officers on scene.” Neither man cooperated with the cops. Both were charged with breach of peace.
Suggestion... for the next three Saturday's, downtown clubs should not accept ID's with New Rochelle addresses... especially from 20 year olds!