Double Shooting In Bridgeport

BrIdgeport, CT -- April 14, 2013) -- City police are investigating a double shooting that happened on Barnum Avenue overnight Sunday.  One of the victims was in critical condition. Patrol officers responded to Bridgeport Hospital at 2:29 a.m. on a report of two people suffering from gunshot wounds. The victims arrived in a private car.  The operator of the vehicle, a silver Dodge Magnum, was identified as Mack Green, 44, of Reservoir Avenue in Bridgeport. He suffered a gunshot wound to the upper thigh. His passenger, Rodney Spann, 42, of Carnegie Street in Bridgeport, suffered from gunshot wounds to the neck and chest. Detectives immediately responded to the hospital and shooting scene. This is what investigators have learned so far:…

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Crash Into The Cleaners Sends 4 To The Hospital

1:22am--#Bridgeport CT--Four people were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries after a crash on Madison Avenue that almost sent the car into Pembroke Cleaners located at 396 Madison Avenue.  Witnesses told me that the car was headed west on Madison Avenue (away from North Avenue) at a high rate of speed, lost control hitting a utility pole which then spun the car in the opposite direction and striking the Pembroke Cleaners building.  The owner of the cleaners told me that his fence and building have been hit a couple of times  in the past.

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