Overnight Grasso Blvd. Illegal Street Race Spectator Shot: PD

NEW HAVEN, CT —A ShotSpotter alert at Ella T. Grasso Boulevard and Printers Lane just before 2:30 a.m., brought cops to the scene of a street race, with most of the participants and spectators had already left, a police spokesperson said. Cops found no evidence of a shooting, but minutes later, police learned a gunshot victim walked into Yale New Haven Hospital, Capt. Rose Dell said.

Dell said that, according to a witness, people were watching street races when a fight broke out. Then, a man "reportedly discharged his firearm in the middle of the road, and the victim was struck," Dell said.

Police went back to the race location to look for "ballistic evidence, which provided
no evidence," Dell said.

Police are asking anyone who may have witnessed this crime or who may have information
valuable to investigators to call detectives at 203-946-6304 or through the department’s
anonymous tip-line at 866-888-TIPS (8477).