Two charged for drive-by shooting

BY YASH ROY & NATHANIEL ROSENBERG STAFF REPORTERS

Two individuals were arrested on Monday following the shooting that sent ten New Haven schools into lockdown Monday morning.

The individuals were leaving Newhall Street in Hamden when they were arrested by New Haven Police in connection to the shots fired between two cars that occurred near Science Hill on Monday morning. Police have also recovered four firearms, one of which has been linked to the shooting.

The shootings prompted lockdowns at schools across the city, potentially due to a miscommunication between police dispatch and the Board of Education security’s team, leading the BOE to believe that an active shooter was inside a New Haven school.

“Through investigative efforts by NHPD’s shooting task force and criminal intelligence units working with state and Hamden Police, we determined that the persons responsible may have fled to a house on Newhall St. in Hamden which police have identified as a known location for criminal activity,” New Haven Police Chief Karl Jacobson said at a press conference on Tuesday.

Both individuals, one a 19-year old from New Haven and the other an 18-year old from Bridgeport, have been charged with criminal possession of a firearm, possessing weapons in a motor vehicle, pistol without a permit, high-capacity magazines and larceny of a motor vehicle.

The department has recovered 23 casings around the area of the shooting. They also obtained a search warrant to search the Newhall St. house and obtained two

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