Crime & Safety
Hamden Police Investigating Mob Attack
A man was hospitalized after seven men beat him after trying to rob him, according to police.
Hamden Police are investigating the attack by seven men on a person who was walking in the area of Dixwell Avenue and Dudley Street shortly after midnight on Aug. 1.
Police got the report of a person at Yale New Haven Hospital's St. Raphael Campus who had been the victim of an aggravated assault, according to police spokesman Capt. Ronald Smith.
The 30-year-old victim told police that he was in the area of Dixwell Avenue and Dudley Street when seven or eight men on bicycles approached him, Smith said.
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They demanded money, Smith said, and when the victim refused, they attacked.
"The victim ran into New Haven to elude them. He then realized that he had sustained a large, deep laceration to his hand and wrist area," Smith said in a release Friday. "It appears that the injury was caused by a sharp instrument. The victim was transported to the hospital by family members."
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Police are asking anyone with information to contact the Hamden Police Department Detective Division at 203-230-4040 or 230-4000.
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