Hartford

3 Shot in Hartford Wednesday Night

Police are investigating after three people were shot in two separate incidents in Hartford Wednesday night. 

Police said shot spotter went off at 8:55 p.m. after a gunshot was fired on Wethersfield Avenue and officers found a 49-year-old man who had been shot in the leg. He was uncooperative with the investigation, police said. 

At 10:05 p.m., a shot spotter detected three rounds fired near Park and Zion streets and patrol officers find casings and damage to a vehicle. 

Minutes later, a 46-year-old victim arrived at Hartford Hospital with a gunshot to the knee and dispatchers were notified that a 26-year-old man had arrived at St. Francis Hospital with a superficial gunshot wound to the chest and arm, police said. 

Both victims of the second shooting said they didn’t see or know who shot them nor did they want to cooperate with investigators, according to police. 

Police said there is no evidence that the two shootings were connected.

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