Second person arrested in North Haven shooting that left moped rider injured
A second person has been arrested in connection with a shooting that left a man injured while he was riding a moped in North Haven in late May, police said on Wednesday.
The shooting happened on May 31 in the area of Whitney Avenue near the Hamden town line. A 20-year-old man was shot and hospitalized with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.
During the initial investigation, the man who was shot told police he had been followed by multiple people, intentionally struck by a car, and then shot after a dispute, police said in a Facebook post.
The first person involved in the incident, a 44-year-old man from New Haven, was arrested on June 10. Police said he was the suspected shooter, and he was charged with assault in the first degree, reckless endangerment in the first degree, criminal possession of a firearm, and illegal discharge of a firearm
A 20-year-old man, also from New Haven, was later identified as the driver of the car that was involved, according to police. He was arrested on Tuesday.
Police said that the day after the shooting, that man left Connecticut and boarded a flight to Florida in “an apparent attempt to avoid apprehension,” police said.
Florida law enforcement officers detained him after he landed and confirmed his identity, but he was released because an arrest warrant had not yet been issued, according to police.
On June 18, an arrest warrant was approved and signed.
North Haven detectives and FBI task force officers worked to find the 20-year-old in Florida until they learned on Monday that he had traveled by train from Florida to New York, then boarded another train to New Haven, police said.
When he arrived in North Haven on Tuesday, he was arrested by North Haven detectives and FBI task force officers without incident, according to police.
The 20-year-old man was charged with criminal attempt to commit assault in the first degree, conspiracy to commit assault in the first degree, and two counts of reckless endangerment in the first degree.
He was held on a $75,000 bond and was scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday.
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