Shots damage four cars downtown

STAMFORD — Shots fired on a downtown street this weekend left four vehicles damaged but no one appears to have been injured, police said.

Capt. Richard Conklin said the shots fired report came in to the 911 dispatch center at at 12:58 a.m. Sunday from Main Street, just across Washington Boulevard from Columbus Park.

Officers sent to the scene did not find any signs of a shooting.

Sgt. Kenneth Jarrett said a woman around the corner on Clinton Avenue called police at 8 a.m. the next morning to report finding two bullets had struck the left side of her car.

When officers went to investigate, they found three other nearby vehicles damaged by gunfire and seven shell casings on the ground.

Conklin said that residents reported hearing six to seven shots fired early Sunday morning.

He said that no one appears to have been hit and police have contacted hospitals looking for gunshot victims with none found.

He said investigators do not know what the motive was for the shots being fired.

The incident continues a spate of unsolved shooting incidents in Stamford that

began in the spring.

On the night of April 19 emergency dispatchers received multiple calls of shots fired in the area of Colonial Road near Hope Street. While officers were responding

they received a report of a gunshot victim at a home on nearby Pine Hill Avenue.

There, police found a 20-yearold man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to his pelvic area, police said. He was rushed to Stamford Hospital where he was later pronounced in stable condition.

A month later, on the night of May 24, police received multiple calls reporting shots being fired at Lockwood Avenue and William Street.

Police determined shots were fired from at least one car. Another shooter might have been on foot or in another car, police said. No one was reported injured

in the gunfire.

But on the next night, May 25, a man was shot in the leg at an incident on Connecticut Avenue. Police found about 20 shell casings from multiple semiautomatic pistols at the end of Connecticut Avenue near the border with Greenwich.

And on May 31 a Bridgeport man was shot at the Southwood Square Apartments. Police were called to the emergency room at Stamford Hospital on the report of a shooting victim being brought there by a private vehicle. The gunman remained at large.