Shooting Victim Suffers Graze Wound After Bullet Hits Cellphone: PD

NEW HAVEN, CT —A man shot while inside a car on Winthrop Avenue Tuesday night is in stable condition after suffering a "graze" wound as his cell phone was struck by the bullet, police said.

It was just before 9 p.m., when police got a call about a shooting on the 300 block of Winthrop Avenue, New Haven police spokesperson Capt. Rose Dell said. When cops got there, they found the man who'd been shot lying in the roadway. Dell said investigators learned that the "victim was shot inside a vehicle and attempted to flee by reversing his vehicle, only to collide with a parked car across the street."

Taken to the hospital via ambulance, cops were later told the man, who was in a stable condition, suffered a graze wound since the bullet struck his phone, Dell said.

Detectives from the Major Crimes Unit and Bureau of Identification were deployed to the scene to gather evidence and search for video surveillance and witnesses.

The New Haven Police Department is asking for the public's help in solving this incident. Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact the New Haven Police Department Investigative Services Division at (203) 946-6304 or through the department’s anonymous tip-line at 866-888-TIPS (8477).