Shots fired outside Discovery School Bridgeport

Approximately 11:48 Bridgeport Police receveid a call of shots fired outside Ninety Acres Park next to Discovery Magnet School on Park Avenue. Police spokesman William Kaempfer told my by phone there was no evidence of a shooting but the school was placed on lock down as a precaution.  Police received four calls of the shots fired. I spoke with witnesses who heard the shots. They were from a Yeshivah School in Brooklyn New York and they thought the wooded area was a shooting range and thought nothing of hearing consecutive gun shots. They didn't realize there was a situation until police arrived and questioned them. The students from Yeshivah Elementary were rock climbing outside the school when the shots rang out…

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Police Announce Arrests in Six-Month Gun Trafficking Investigation

  (Bridgeport, CT – Oct. 1, 2013) -- The Statewide Urban Violence Cooperative Crime Control Task Force announced three significant arrests as part of an ongoing investigation into illegal firearms trafficking in Greater Bridgeport. Among the weapons seized were an illegal Street Sweeper -- a Cobray 12-gauge shotgun with collapsible stock, front pistol grip, and 20-round drum -- and a Romarm AK-47-type assault weapon with 30-round, high-capacity magazine. The magazine was loaded with 22 live 7.62 x 39 rounds. “These weapons have devastating capability. They posed a risk to our community and our police officers. The rounds in the seized AK-47 would rip though a police officer’s bullet-proof vest,” said Police Chief Joseph L. Gaudett Jr. “Imagine what it would do…

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