A 27-year-old New Haven man is facing charges after shooting another person in the groin during a fight in Hamden in January, according to police.
Police said Michael Turner, 27, of New Haven, confronted the 24-year-old victim while the man was walking with his girlfriend on Dixwell Avenue in Hamden on Jan. 10.
The two men began to argue and stepped behind a nearby bar to fight, at which point Turner shot the man in the groin, according to police.
Police said the victim was taken to Yale-New Haven Hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.
Turner was arrested March 12 with help from the U.S. Marshal Service Connecticut Violent Fugitive Task Force. He was charged with first-degree assault, criminal use of a firearm and criminal possession of a firearm.
Turner is due in court March 26.
