Category: Bridgeport

2024-04-15@2:51pm–#Bridgeport CT– A person on a mountain bike struck a four-year-old child while riding the bike at Seaside Park by the splash pad.

2024-04-14@9:08pm–#Bridgeport CT– Firefighters were called for a dumpster fire in the 70 block of Laurel Avenue. It was located on the side of the building but firefighters extinguished it before it threatened the home.

2024-04-13@10:34pm–#Bridgeport CT– Police are looking for a blue 2023 Tesla with New York Plates LEH 7110 taken on Beach Street near Washington Park. The car belongs to a Westchester Police Officer who left his badge and gun in the glove compartment.

2024-04-13@12:47pm–#Bridgeport CT– Firefighters were called to help get the driver out of a car that went down the embankment on Bishop Avenue behind Standard Oil. The driver was transported to the hospital with unknown injuries.

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2024-04-12@8:23pm–#Bridgeport CT– Firefighters on the scene of an oven fire in the 700 block of Staples Street. Fire is out and firefighters are helping ventilate the home.

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Report of a motor vehicle accident involving a school bus on Garden Street.

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Rollover crash near the intersection of Park Ave and McKinley Ave

2024-04-10@10:51pm–#Fairfield CT– #cttraffic– Report of a 4 car crash on the Merritt Parkway near exit 44 to 42 with injuries.

Bridgeport News: Man Shot
Police UPDATE–On April 10, 2024, at approximately 6:55 pm Bridgeport Police responded to a ShotSpotter activation and citizen reports of a victim shot within the 1200 block of Park Avenue.

Patrol officers responded to that area and quickly located a male victim suffering from a gunshot wound to the head. The victim was transported to an area hospital via AMR ambulance where he is listed in critical condition.

The Detective Bureau has responded and taken charge of the criminal investigation. A large crime scene has been secured on Park Avenue between Laurel Avenue and Wood Avenue. Multiple items of evidence have been observed at the scene. Those items, and more, will be collected and processed by the Police Department’s Forensic Identification Unit.

Detectives are currently canvassing the area, identifying witnesses, and documenting their investigation. The Bridgeport Police Department is asking for your help in solving this crime. Anyone with information is asked to contact the case officer, Detective Thomas Harper, at 203-581-5244. Citizens can also utilize the Bridgeport Police Tips line at 203 576-TIPS.

2024-04-10@6:55pm–#Bridgeport CT– Police said they have two in custody after a shooting in the 1200 block of Park Avenue. Witnesses told me they heard 6-7 shots. Unconfirmed reports say the man was shot in the head.

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“As Mayor, I directed legal counsel for the City, to file an appeal last week with the Superior Court from the Siting Council granting the United Illuminating Company (UI) a Certificate of Environmental Compatibility and Public Need for the Fairfield to Congress Railroad Transmission Line. The approved plan that the City is appealing would permit the installation of massive utility poles (Monopoles) replacing existing transmission lines within the South End of the city.

Bridgeport city attorneys took this action on my direction to preserve and protect our residents and property owners from a poorly designed project. Make no mistake, this project, if allowed to proceed, will be an aesthetic eyesore and an unjust blight on the Park City.

The grounds of the City’s appeal include claims of legal prejudice because the Siting Council’s decision is clearly erroneous considering the reliable, prohibitive, and substantial evidence introduced opposing the project, and because there is a lack of sufficient evidence in the administrative hearing record to justify such a decision.”

Mayor Ganim offered that he is confident the City’s appeal will be successful. Further, the Mayor announced that the City’s support for any future alternative plan will require UI to bury the transmission lines for every section of the project where it is environmentally feasible to do so.

Undergrounding UI’s infrastructure will avoid negative impacts on historic and other sensitive abutting properties and will facilitate rather than impede the planned future development of Bridgeport’s waterfront.

Mayor Ganim emphasized that “No revised plan will be deemed acceptable to Bridgeport that does not provide protection to the maximum extent possible from any negative impacts upon our vulnerable population. Moreover, any future compromise proposed plan will need full public vetting before our impacted Neighborhood Revitalization Zones (NRZs) prior to it receiving City support. My administration will continue its vigilance in holding our local public utilities fully accountable to the population they serve and ensuring that the residents of this City are always treated fairly and equitably.”