Bridgeport

Bridgeport News: 2 Shot On Hudson Street

Bridgeport Police UPDATE: At approximately 2017 hours last night, PO Smith was on patrol and reported shots fired in the area of Capitol Avenue/ Hudson Street. PO Smith observed a Nissan Pathfinder fleeing the scene and attempted to stop this vehicle. The operator of the vehicle refused to stop for the officer and bailed out of the moving vehicle on Main Street near Salem Street. The vehicle continued to roll, unoccupied for several hundred feet and came to rest along the curb.   The driver eluded capture. Two gunshot victims, a man and a woman, were located in front of 60 Hudson Street. The male victim sustained a serious gunshot wound to his left leg and a graze wound to…

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Bridgeport News: Person Shot

Bridgeport Police UPDATE: On October 16, 2016 at approximately 0148 hours, a shooting incident occurred at 1725 Barnum Avenue.  A male victim was shot multiple times in the right arm, causing substantial injury and blood loss. He was transported by private vehicle to Bridgeport Hospital for treatment and is expected to survive and underwent surgery this morning.  Witnesses state that an unknown light skin male wearing a black jacket approached the victim and shot at him multiple times and then casually walked away and may have left the area in a white colored Honda.   1:52am--#Bridgeport Connecticut-- A shooting outside of Barnum and Bishop Avenue.  The victim ran inside the Avenue Cafe then left in a private vehicle to Bridgeport Hospital.…

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Bridgeport News: $500K In Grants For Homeless Youth

#Bridgeport Connecticut--#WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and U.S. Representative Jim Himes (CT-4) on Wednesday announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded a three-year, $179,776 per year federal grant to the Council of Churches of Greater Bridgeport, Inc., to support the Janus Center for Youth in Crisis. With help from this grant, the Janus Center will provide shelter and homelessness prevention and intervention services to 1,200 male, female and transgender runaway, homeless and street youth under the age of 18 from Bridgeport, Stratford, Fairfield, Trumbull, Monroe and Easton. The Janus Center runs a 24-hour crisis hotline; provides youth and family counseling; conducts mental health, substance abuse, and trafficking assessments;…

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