After a busy weekend of gunfire, police responded Tuesday to more shootings in town.
The latest shooting was reported Tuesday at 11:32 a.m. Two men were shot on Carmel Street near Percival. One, who’s 28, was hit in the thigh; the second, who’s 21, in the arm and leg. They both showed up at Yale-New Haven’s Hospital St. Raphael campus, where they’re being treated for non-life-threatening wounds, according to police spokesman Officer David Hartman.
Police responded to 122 Munson St. at 3:54 a.m. Tuesday to find that a 19-year-old Hamden man had been shot in the abdomen. Hartman reported that he’s recovering from surgery.
On Saturday, two women and one man were sent to the hospital after getting injured in a shoot-out at a neighborhood cookout that occurred around 11:20 p.m. by Wayfarer Street and Wilmot Road. (Read more about that here.)
At 2:14 a.m. Monday police went to the scene of a reported shooting on Bouchet Lane, where they discovered that indeed a 24-year-old woman had been shot in the heat. Someone drove her to the hospital, where she was treated for non-life-threatening injuries. Moments later, a 27-year0ld New Haven man showed up at Yale-New Haven Hospital for treatment of a non-life-threatening gunshot wound in his thigh.
A caller asked Mayor Toni Harp about the recent spate of shootings during her latest appearance on WNHH FM’s “Mayor Monday” program.
She said at least some of the shootings appear to be gang-related.
“A number of people that were formerly inccareated and members of gangs or loosely structured groups have been released and come back. There’s a little fight going on over turf,” Harp said. She said the police department is putting more cops on the streets in response. “We’re really hoping that that will minimize if not elminate the shootings that we saw over the past week.”
Maybe we should have kept these folks in jail longer.