Labor Day Weekend Shootings Leave 3 Residents With Gunshot Wounds: PD

NEW HAVEN, CT — Sunday evening, cops were dispatched to Exchange and Poplar streets following a ShotSpotter activation. Officers would locate a crime scene in the area of Grand and Blatchley avenues, police posted on X. Shortly after, cops learned a shooting victim "walked into" Yale New Haven Hospital's main campus' emergency room on York Street. The 20-year-old New Haven resident arrived by private vehicle, police said, adding his injuries were listed as non-life-threatening by hospital staff.

Then, Tuesday at just before 3 a.m., another Shotspotter activation, but also 911 calls reporting shots and screams, in the area of Sherman and Whalley avenues. Cops arrived and found "ballistic evidence and blood in the street." While cops were on scene, the Saint Raphael emergency department notified police that two people with gunshot wounds arrived at the ER, police said. A 26-year-old woman and a 21-year-old man both had non-life-threatening gunshot wounds to their feet, police said.