NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Two West Haven police officers are recovering Wednesday after they were shot during an altercation with a suspect while executing a search warrant. The suspect was killed in the altercation, according to police.
The West Haven Police Department was executing a search warrant on Grand Avenue in New Haven when two officers were shot, police said.
Police say two officers were shot in New Haven Wednesday morning. A suspect is dead. They say the officers were trying to serve a search warrant out of West Haven before a standoff and exchange of gunfire between the suspect and police. The suspect was killed in the exchange.
Two Connecticut police officers have been shot and wounded while trying to execute a search warrant in New Haven, where a person described by authorities as a suspect was also injured
Two West Haven police officers and a suspect were shot in New Haven on Wednesday morning as the officers were carrying out a search warrant, according to police. New Haven Police said the two officers were shot as they were executing a search warrant on Grand Avenue in New Haven.
Two West Haven police officers were shot on Wednesday morning while executing a state search warrant at an apartment on Grand Avenue in New Haven. The officers' injuries are not life-threatening, according to police.
The Connecticut Office of the Inspector General is investigating Wednesday’s officer-involved shooting with a fatality.
The two West Haven officers were expected to survive their injuries and were being treated at a hospital, New Haven police said.
A SWAT team is at a home on Grand Avenue in New Haven early Wednesday morning. As of 6 a.m., an ambulance and police cruisers were at the scene. The SWAT team
Two West Haven police officers were shot as the officers were carrying out a search warrant out of West Haven for drugs at an apartment in New Haven early Wednesday morning and the suspect was shot and has died,
Two West Haven police officers while executing a search warrant early Wednesday morning at an apartment complex in New Haven, and the suspect was fatally shot, according to police.
Robert Vitelli, 49, of New Haven, is facing burglary and larceny charges after two West Haven restaurants reported that they had been broken into, police said.