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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

March 18, 1963

The U.S. Supreme Court, in Gideon v. Wainwright, ruled unanimously that state courts were required to provide legal counsel to criminal defendants who could not afford to hire an attorney on their own.

ON THIS DATE 1910

The first filmed adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein,” a silent short produced by Thomas Edison’s New York movie studio, was released.

1937

In America’s worst school disaster, nearly 300 people, most of them children, were killed in a natural gas explosion at the New London Consolidated School in Rusk County, Texas.

1965

The first spacewalk took place as Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov went outside his Voskhod 2 capsule, secured by a tether.

NEW HAVEN — A woman was killed and another person wounded Tuesday night in shootings near Legion Avenue, according to city police, and a West Haven resident was arraigned Wednesday on charges in connection with the incident.

Officers responded to a report of a person shot near the intersection of Legion Avenue and Auburn Street around 10:14 p.m., finding a wounded 28-year-old woman from New Haven on Auburn Street, Capt. Anthony Duff said in an email.

“On Auburn Street, the officer also detained a 32year-old West Haven woman,” Duff said. “New Haven Fire Department and American Medical Response personnel treated the gunshot victim at the scene. An ambulance transported the 28-year-old New Haven woman to Yale New Haven Hospital where she was later pronounced deceased.”

Police Wednesday identified Dwaneia Alexandria Turner, 28, as the homicide victim.

In Tuesday’s incident, police “learned of a second gunshot victim who was now outside a corner store on nearby Sylvan Avenue at Greenwood Street,” Duff said.

A 28-year-old West Haven woman found there had been wounded in the hand, Duff said. She was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

“Prior to the double shooting, investigators believe there was a dispute between the three women on Auburn Street. During the early stages of the investigation, detectives have charged the 32-year-old West Haven woman in the incident,” Duff said.

Brianna Triplett, 32, is charged with first-degree assault, Duff said. She was held in lieu of $1 million bail and was arraigned Wednesday, he said.

Triplett’s case was transferred to Part A proceedings at the Church Street courthouse, where more serious charges are adjudicated. She is next scheduled to appear March 30.

According to a warrant for Triplett’s arrest, Officer Matthew Curran is alleged to have found Triplett holding a handgun as he arrived on scene.

A person whose name is redacted in the warrant was on the ground nearby.

Curran initially had Triplett sit on the sidewalk, and she then was escorted to a cruiser, according to the warrant. She did not say anything to Curran at the scene, he reported.

A bloody knife and shell casings were found near the scene, according to the warrant.

Duff asked anyone with information to contact the New Haven Police Department at 203-946-6304.

This was the eighth homicide of the year in New Haven.

Before this incident, Alfreda Youmans, Jeffery Dotson, Jorge Osorio-Caballero, Marquis Winfrey, Joseph Mattei, Kevin Jiang and Angel Rodriguez were killed.

There had been one homicide in the city by this point in 2020.