Police in Connecticut Make Arrests in Shootings
Police said Friday they had found five people they believed committed a series of car thefts that escalated this week into random shootings that injured five men and unnerved the public.
Two men were arrested Friday, and charges were expected next week against a third man and two juveniles. All five have confessed, Police Chief Francisco Ortiz said.
Police said the suspects stole as many as three cars a night to take joyrides around the city. They somehow got a .22-caliber semiautomatic handgun, possibly left in one of the stolen cars, police said.
“At some point when they were driving around, they decided to do something foolish,” Ortiz said.
Victims of the shootings said the attacks were unprovoked.
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