24 May, 2018 – SHOOTING INVESTIGATION
At 8:20 PM, Officers responded to the area outside 53 Dickerman Street after gunfire was reported. Investigating officers located 42 year old Peter Bush, of New Haven. He’d been shot in the leg. He was transported to Yale New Haven Hospital for treatment of a non-life threatening wound.
No suspect or suspect vehicle description was given.
Detectives from the NHPD’s Major Crimes Division and Bureau of Identification were at the scene conducting the investigation.
Anyone who witnessed this crime or who may have information valuable to those investigators is urged to phone police at 203-946-6316 or Text-A-Tip. Text “NHPD plus your message” to 274637 (CRIMES) Calls may be made anonymously.
24 May, 2018 – STABBING
At 5:45 PM, Officers responded to Edgewood Park at the basketball court after someone was reported to have been stabbed. The pick-up game went sour after an argument was sparked. Witnesses said the argument turned ugly when one man pulled a knife and stabbed the other through the rib-cage and arm.
The uncooperative victim was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening wounds.
The suspect was described as a black male with a thin build. Depending on which eyewitness you heard from, the perp was wearing either a black, red or white T-shirt and black shorts. Detectives have picked up the case and are investigating.
24 May, 2018 – GUNFIRE
At 5:20 PM, Officers responded to the area of 185 Eastern Street after gunfire was reported. Witnesses told officers a young, light complexioned black male got out of a silver colored Honda CRV. He walked to a nearby field, shot off a few rounds and high-tailed it toward Bouchet Lane. A while later, he returned to the car and drove toward Jackson Lane.
No one was shot, no ballistic evidence could be found and no property damage was discovered. Cops are looking into the incident. The registration on the car is that of one stolen from Orange, CT.
24 May, 2018 – CARJACKING
At 9:51 AM, Officers were dispatched to a reported carjacking at Oakley Street and Peat Meadow Road. The sixty-eight year old victim told officers he’d pulled over to make a phone call. A silver Hyundai pulled up. A man go out and approached him, opened his driver’s door and tried snatching his phone. The victim wouldn’t give it up. The crook’s friends then got out of the Hyundai, pulled the victim from his car, and made off with it.
The crooks drove the car to a parking lot on the two-hundred block of Quinnipiac Avenue. Coincidentally, the victim’s daughter lives there. She happened to be outside and saw her father’s car being driven by a stranger. She confronts him and a struggle ensues. The carjacker flees and in doing so, drags the woman. He bails out of the car and takes off on foot along with the three remaining perps in the Hyundai.
Both father and daughter were taken to the hospital for treatment of minor injuries. Cops took both vehicles for forensic processing. The Hyundai was a reported stolen car from the previous night. The four perps were each described as Hispanic men between fifteen and eighteen years old, each between 5’05” and 5’08” in height. One wore a mask and another – a yellow T-shirt.
23 May, 2018 – ONE-CAR CRASH
At 10:10 PM, Officers investigated a single-car crash at Carlisle Street and Loop Road. They came upon an upright vehicle that had apparently rolled over.
The driver was alert and walking around after being ejected through the passenger side window. Witnesses said she was driving quickly in a car that was missing its right rear tire before it flipped over. Cops held the scene until the hospital reported her injuries weren’t too serious. Charges are likely
