Three Charged with Air Soft Gun Shooting

An 18-year-old Hamden teen was shot in the face with an air soft gun Tuesday night when she was stopped at traffic light in the area of Hamden High School, according to police, and three people were charged in connection with the shooting.

Off. Robert O’Neill responded to a Forest Street home at about 7:30 Tuesday evening on the report of a shooting, police spokesman Capt. Ronald Smith said. 

There, the woman told O'Neill she was stopped at a red light near the high school when someone sitting in the backseat of another car shot her, hitting her in the face near her right eye.

The person shot several other times as well, Smith said, nearly hitting the woman again. She refused medical treatment, Smith said.

Shortly after that, an officer pulled over a car on Whitney Avenue containing two of the three people who were in the offending car, Smith said. The third person turned himself in to police a short time after that, Smith said. 

Christopher Dynia, 20, of 335 Forest St., and Michael Allen, 18, of 52 Costanzo Ct., was charged with first-degree conspiracy to commit reckless endangerment in the 1st Degree. Both are scheduled to appear in Meriden Superior Court Aug. 9.

A 17 year-old Hamden resident, who was not identified because of his age, was charged with second-degree assault and first-degree reckless endangerment. He also is scheduled to appear in court Aug. 9.