SCSU Students Carjacked In New Haven: PD

NEW HAVEN, CT — Police are investigating after four Southern Connecticut State University students reported being carjacked at the Gulf gas station on Fitch Street.

Police were dispatched around 10 p.m. Sept. 7. The four young men pulled into the gas station and one went inside to make a purchase while three waited in the vehicle. The men in the car saw a white man being chased by a black man, said Officer David Hartman, police spokesman.

The black man then confronted the three sitting in the car and had a long-barreled chrome revolver. The men in the car got out and the armed man sped off toward Whalley Avneue.

The thief was likely in his early 20's and was wearing a navy blue hooded sweatshirt, blue pants and white shoes.

The vehicle was located about 30 minutes later after police collected data from one of the victim's cell phones. It was left unoccupied at Edgewood and Winthrop Avenues. The robber remains at large and police will forensically examine the vehicle.