NEWS RELEASE
Date: November 25, 2020
Contact: Captain Ronald Smith
Phone: (203) 230-4029
PIO#: 20-166
On November 25, 2020 at 11:45p.m. Hamden Police responded to a Wintergreen
Avenue residence on the report of “shots fired.”
The 84-year-old resident advised police that she was in her bedroom watching
television. She heard several gunshots and “some glass breakage.” The window in her
bedroom was shattered by gunfire. A canvass of her bedroom revealed multiple bullet
holes in the walls and furniture. There were no reported injuries.
More than a dozen shell casings were found in the street.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Andrew Lipford of the Hamden
Police Department Detective Division at (203) 230-4055.