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UPDATE: –Police say that just before 12:30 Monday morning Len Allen Smith of Fourth Street was fatally shot while sitting in parked car at Union and Stratford Avenue. A second victim, Georgia Comacho who was seated in the back seat was also shot. She underwent surgery and is in critical condition. Smith died of his
10:34pm–#Bridgeport CT– Police are investigating a stabbing on McLevy Green. Witnesses confirmed radio reports that a man allegedly bit a woman who the allegedly stabbed the man. They were both taken to the hospital. Police are investigating.
7:00PMish– Stratford Police were called to the basketball courts on Woodend Road near Leeward Drive for a 16 year old who was shot. The boy was transported to Bridgeport Hospital. The condition of the boy is unknown. Radio reports say the police are looking for a silver or gray Honda with three males inside. Police
6:16pm—#Bridgeport CT– A hawk that has been terrorizing the neighborhood on East Main and Hickory Street was captured in the 200 block of Hickory Street by a DEEP Wildlife Conservation Officer. He was assisted by Bridgeport Animal Control and Bridgeport Police. Police received a number of calls for the hawk swooping down on people throughout the
How about some likes for the Bridgeport Police Department who searched for a red Nissan that was taken in a carjacking on Park Avenue with a five-year-old still inside. All departments in the police department including housing details and detectives searched the city. The car was first located and it was located but lost on
2pm–#Milford CT– A house was being lifted from its temporary wooden piling onto its permanent cement pilings when the building shifted, falling off the steel beams that supported it. One worker injured his arm. The home was too unsteady to be lifted up and the home was demolished.
12:40am–#Bridgeport CT– Firefighters were called to a smokey fire at 86 Hawthorne Street in Bridgeport’s north end Friday night. The occupants were able to safely make it out along with their 4 dogs and 5 cats. It took firefighters about an hour before they got the upper hand of the fire. One firefighter came out
#Bridgeport CT– Ground breaking for the new Harbor Yard Amphitheater took place this morning after phase one of three is complete. Design one was design, structural engineering, final drawings and permitting. The new structure is expected to be twelve stories or one hundred and twenty feet tall, almost as tall as the People’s Bank Tower
UPDATE: 1:41pm–#Bridgeport CT– 3 Metro-North workers were injured when two trains “bumped” each other behind Bluefish Stadium. Firefighters were challenged to removed the injured patients because the tracks are elevated at that spot. So firefighters used their ladder truck and put the patients in a rescue basket to lower them down. All four tracks were shut down
10:00PMish—7/4—#Bridgeport CT– Bridgeport Police Chief AJ Perez said that the man who collapsed in the roadway on Barnum Avenue near Helen Street has died. Police identified him as Derek Franklin, 48 possibly collapsed from a medical condition and then was hit by a mini-van. The operator of the vehicle told investigators that she saw the