Man Arrested After Hill Shooting

by Thomas Breen The New Haven independent

City police arrested a 29-year-old man in the Hill on Saturday following the shooting of a 37-year-old woman in the arm in an apparent act of domestic violence.

The New Haven Police Department (NHPD) posted on the social media site X at 10:33 a.m. Saturday that, at around 10:46 p.m. on Friday, city police officers responded to an apartment on Howard Avenue for “a welfare check.”

Following that welfare check, a 37-year-old woman was transported to the hospital “where it was determined she had been shot in the arm.” Her injuries were not life-threatening.

In a phone interview with the Independent Saturday evening, Acting Police Chief David Zannelli said that officers obtained a search warrant for the Howard Avenue apartment in question and “located several firearms inside the apartment.” Police also found and arrested a suspect, who has been charged with first-degree assault, reckless endangerment, and other firearms-related offenses, and is being held on a $750,000 bond.

“They seem to have a relationship,” Zannelli said about the 29-year-old arrestee and the 37-year-old shooting victim. “She knew who he was.”

Zannelli also said “there was a child inside the home at the time” of the shooting. That child did not witness the shooting and was not physically injured.

Zannelli credited lead Det. Thomas Blaisdell with making the swift arrest — the fifth arrest so far this year in connection to six non-fatal shootings.

“We’re doing good. I just think it’s the cooperation of the community,” Zannelli said when asked why he thinks the department was able to make an arrest so soon after the shooting in this incident. “When people trust that we’re going to do something with the information” they provide, he said, they’re more likely to come forward.

In a separate incident that the police department posted about in a press release on X on Saturday night, at 3:25 a.m. on Saturday, city police officers responded to Yale New Haven Hospital for the report of a walk-in gunshot victim.

The victim, a 23-year-old man from New Haven, had suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to his toe.

“Detectives determined that the victim accidentally shot himself while sitting in a car on Sheldon Terrace with a firearm legally registered to him.”

Police ask that anyone who may have witnessed this incident or who may have information valuable to investigators to call detectives at 203-946-6304 or through the department’s anonymous tip line at 866-888-8477.

The city’s most recent CompStat report states that, through March 1 of this year, there have been 0 homicides and five non-fatal shootings compared to two homicides and three non-fatal shootings by that same time last year. The report also states that there had been 19 confirmed shots fired by March 1 of this year, compared to 13 by that same time last year.