Man Shot Outside River Street 'After Hours Spot' Early Saturday: PD

NEW HAVEN, CT — A man was shot outside a River Street "after hours spot," in the pre-dawn hours Saturday, police said. It was around 3:30 a.m. when the man was approached by another man in a ski-mask on River Street near Ferry Street, police spokesperson Capt. Rose Dell said. A fight ensued, she said, and the man was shot by the masked man.

When cops got there, they found the victim on the sidewalk, she said, adding he was "immediately attended to and transported to Yale-New Haven Hospital via American Medical Response ambulance. Dell said he was initially in critical condition, though later, an emergency room doctor said he'd suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound.

Detectives from the Major Crimes Unit and Bureau of Identification interviewed witnesses and gathered evidence and, as part of the investigation, detectives recovered one fired cartridge casing, 13 live rounds, and one firearm magazine, Dell said.

The New Haven Police Department is actively investigating this incident and encourages
anyone with information to come forward and assist in the investigation. Anyone with
information on this incident is urged to call detectives at 203-946-6304 or through the
department’s anonymous tip-line at 866-888-TIPS (8477).