From public safety spokesman Kevin Coughlin:
Today, the Bridgeport Police Department announced an investigation into an incident where three people were shot and one of them has died. On November 5 at 6:45 p.m., police officers responded to calls regarding shots fired in the area of Washington Ave. and Center St. (Charles Greene Homes).
Upon arrival, police officers found two victims suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. The first victim, 22-year-old Miguel Arguelles of Hanover Street, suffered gunshot wounds to the neck and shoulder. Arguelles was transported to St. Vincent’s Hospital by ambulance. At the hospital, Arguelles was pronounced dead, and the incident was confirmed as a homicide.The second victim, a 22-year-old male, suffered a gunshot wound to the stomach. The victim was transported to St. Vincent’s Hospital by ambulance. He is in critical condition.
A third victim, a 21-year-old male, suffered a gunshot wound to the leg. The victim was transported to St. Vincent’s Hospital by a private vehicle.
This incident brings the total number of homicides in Bridgeport since Jan. 1, 2015 to 16.
Police officers and detectives are actively investigating several leads.
Anyone with information should contact Bridgeport Police Detective Cintron at (203) 581-5227.
We had three homes on Center Street for years. Two, just three houses in from Washington Ave. on Center St. I was there all hours of the days and nights. Drug dealing in both houses. Once, the girl on the top floor told a drug buyer to go steal the pipes out of the basement, turn them in, and come back for the drugs. Maybe she didn’t think it through, the guy stole her water pipes. She then called the city to say she had no water. They called us to fix it. The real stories always sound the most made up. As for the shootings, the area was quiet enough for the past almost ten years. The violence is now out of control. If Joe Ganim is good with crime, then let’s see how fast he can get this back under control. Because it is now dangerous.
Really, Keith? This is somehow Bill Finch’s fault?
Heavy hangs the head that couldn’t straighten out the crown also, no?
So Finch lost because he put in a McDonald’s in the Hollow? Maybe Finch lost because he had a terrible campaign manager.
Maybe Finch lost because he took the advice of people other than his campaign manager.
No, he was mean and surrounded himself with mean and the people said no thanks. Ganim, for all 16 of his faults, is much more of a people person.
Finch lost because he had incompetent department heads, he surrounded himself with idiots. This has been proven! Just look how they handled his reelection.
Really, Keith. They have McDonald’s in Riverside and Greenwich and Westport and Darien and Stamford and Fairfield BUT we don’t want one in the Hollow.
What about coat hooks in the Men’s rooms. How’s that working out? Better than a Mickey D’s in the Hollow?
I went to the council meeting and said the young kids at the school did not need another McDonalds as the example of available food. It was like being on Mars talking about green pastures. Anything that put a buck in somebody’s pocket seemed like economic development to them. Now, the North Ave corridor can feel more “inner city” instead of having a neighborhood character.
Rev it up, Bob. Don’t think you will be able to muster your classic passion in opposition to coat hooks or whether people think McDonald’s is a healthy alternative. The women in Greenwich with too much time on their hands want to bring their kids to McDonald’s, that’s on them. Heck, if they are actually their own kids and not just the nanny with the kids in tow, that would be a start.
Living in Easton must provide a bird’s-eye perspective on life in the big bad city of Bridgeport. Not to play the devil’s advocate but Finch can’t be directly blamed for the escalation of gun violence plaguing the Hollow and the East Side. He did, however, allow police ranks to dwindle and made only ineffectual efforts to pull guns off the streets. The failure of the s hook system to teach kids problem-solving and conflict resolution skills that result in a positive outcome is another contributing factor.
Actually, I hope there were no politics being played in letting the streets get dangerous. I met a guy who was in a meeting with Bloomberg in New York some time ago. Bloomberg was talking about how safe the streets were and how crime had dropped. The guy said, “actually Mike, crime has gone up in our neighborhood.” Bloomberg asked a question about it, then had an assistant make a call to the police commissioner and within six hours the drug dealers were swept up and problem solved. In Bridgeport, everybody who lives in any neighborhood can tell you what corner the drugs are on, what the name is of the new gang on the block, what houses have dealing going on in them. So the appropriate forces need to be put to work to clean it up. It gets dangerous for citizens and law enforcement both when it gets out of hand. I think Ganim should be able to quickly do a better job of the clean-up than Finch did. I hope. But it is the job of the police department and other agencies to solve, I don’t know why waiting for a new mayor should make a major difference, except in needed resources, could it be morale? It was one of the most dangerous times in recent Bridgeport history during a part of Ganim’s 12 years. I had the opportunity to sit with the chief of police who showed me footage of East Side crack gangs shooting out the street lights with machine guns. I still remember the footage mostly because of the lady who was walking past them with her bag of groceries while the lights were being shot out. This problem is not too far gone yet and the winter may be a better time to real it in, before spring madness ensues.
Hey, sorry he beat up on the wife, Keith, but I like Bob for his crazy outbursts in the council. He had his beliefs in line when he called out a lot of corrupt city practices in his time. Don’t worry Bob (rubbing Bob’s head), it will be okay, Keith is just being mean like you.
That would be one, I guess. Boy, you’re giving the Bridgeport Kid a good reputation for language.
You lie. You have a total of three, one in your mouth and two in your hands.
Need a memory jogger, OIB readers. Keith Cougar, a fictitious name for Keith Rodgerson, a Harvard alumnus, former City employee, and urban activist and spouse of Maryli Secrest, recent Finch campaign manager.
Keith has been quite silent for some time I think, or perhaps I missed one or more of his 2015 eruptions. However, if I were to guess, I bet he has more entries on this thread than he has posted in the past six months. That is 13 of the soon-to-be 29 comments. What is it about Bob Walsh that caused this ‘storm’ of consciousness VITRIOL?
Can we change the subject? What are you doing today, Keith? Where do you stand on OPEN, ACCOUNTABLE and TRANSPARENT values? Which writing course in your university and post-grad career trained you in word vomiting? What did Bob Walsh do to you, aside from his sometime crotchety missives, that he has not done regularly to others? Time will tell.
So you don’t like your parents and grandparents?
Keith is pissed his stupid and incompetent wife doesn’t have a job. Screw her.
Another shooting last night, this time on Columbia Street near Marina Village. This isn’t gang activity, according to the police. It’s teenagers shooting each other over Facebook slights, “I saw y’all lookin’ at mah girlfriend,” that sort of thing. Finch and Gaudett are soon to be unemployed so the violence will go on for at least another month, until Cousin Joe assumes the mantle.
Keith,
Thank you for your answers to the questions I posed. Drive safely. But don’t look in the mirror if you don’t like old folks, by your words, you are aging rapidly, and you are not Dorian Grey. Perhaps you can find something you do like and stick with it. Tell us about it, how it benefits more than you or yours, somewhere with real satisfaction and the possibility of joy someday? Have any questions? Give me a call, I’m in the phone book, been a long time. Time will tell.