Connecticut
12-year-old shot multiple times by driver after throwing snowball at car in Connecticut
Police in Connecticut have launched a manhunt for a suspect who opened fire on a pair of kids, striking a 12-year-old multiple times, after the children hit the gunman’s car with a snowball last week.
Officers in Hartford responded to a shooting around 7:15 p.m. Wednesday and discovered the injured 12-year-old, according to Hartford Police.
The victim and their 11-year-old friend had been having a snowball fight outside when one of the snowballs struck a car passing by, police said.
The vehicle circled around to chase the children down and the driver fired a gun at the kids, police said at a news conference on Thursday.
The 12-year-old sustained non-life-threatening gunshot wounds and was taken to Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. The 11-year-old was not injured.
No suspect had been arrested by Sunday and police are continuing to investigate.
Snowballs have proven to incidentally stir trouble for years, even as annual snowfall countrywide has decreased.
In early December, football fans went wild and made it rain snowballs on members of the San Francisco 49ers during a game against the Buffalo Bills on their home turf in snowstorm-laden Buffalo, NY. Bills fans were back at it again in late January during a game against the Kansas City Chiefs.
One town in Wisconsin took a different approach and banned snowball throwing outright.
The search continues for a rare collection of Abraham Lincoln artifacts that went missing after a visit to Connecticut College in New London, including a letter written days after the president’s assassination.
Sameer Somal, a Lincoln enthusiast, said the artifacts disappeared Tuesday after he accidentally left the folder containing them on top of his car and drove away following interviews with fellow Lincoln scholars at Connecticut College.
“The plan was to interview them, and I was going to show them some of these artifacts,” Somal said.
Somal said he has spent years assembling the collection, which included portraits of Lincoln, original Civil War-era newspapers, and an original invitation to Lincoln’s 1864 inaugural ball.
Among the items was a document Somal described as especially significant.
“There was a letter, which is particularly precious, written on April 17th, 1865, from General William Tecumseh Sherman about the assassination of Mr. Lincoln,” Somal said.
After realizing the folder was missing, Somal contacted campus security. He said he was initially told the folder had been recovered, but later learned security had mistaken it for a book that had fallen from his car.
“I proceeded to look in the dark in my state of disappointment and trauma,” Somal said.
The next day, Somal made the five-hour trip back to New London and checked with the police. He believes the folder likely fell on or near the Connecticut College campus, but it has not been turned in.
Somal said the loss goes beyond the monetary value of the artifacts, as the collection was intended to serve as a centerpiece for a future museum dedicated to Lincoln in Illinois.
Now he is asking whoever found the folder to return it.
“I will do anything to get these items back and anything to help someone else in life if I can just get them back,” Somal said.
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