Crime & Safety
Mass Shooting Reported In Hartford On Fathers Day: Reports
A total of five people were shot at a Hartford civic organization on Sunday night.
HARTFORD, CT — City responders and police rushed to a local civic organization Sunday night after gunshots rang out there late on Father's Day.
According to WFSB Channel 3, the incident happened at 181 Homestead Ave. in Hartford, where the Caribbean American Society of Hartford is located.
Arriving officers found one person suffering from a gunshot wound, WFSB Channel 3 reported.
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WTNH Channel 8 reported the incident happened at about 10:24 p.m. Sunday and the initial victim was suffering a non-life-threatening injury.
Later, WTNH reported, it was learned that four others were taken to a nearby hospital in a private vehicle for gunshot wounds at that site, also reported to be non-life-threatening.
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The shooting remains under investigation.
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