New London — A loud noise brought police to Colman Street on Thursday night, where they said they found an intoxicated man with a cut on his forehead but no clear source of the noise.

Police, who were told shots may have been fired, canvassed the area between Redden and Garfield avenues and found no ballistic evidence. They said they believe the man fell and cut his forehead.

Benny Sanabria was sitting in the kitchen at his parents’ Colman Street house, which is next to Tree of Life Christian Fellowship, when, about 9 p.m., he said he heard a noise like nothing he had heard before.

He said it sounded like a gunshot and went to the back of his house to make sure it wasn’t fireworks. It wasn’t. His two boys said they saw somebody leaning between the front of a car and a trailer in front of the church.

“I said, ‘Sir, are you all right?’ and he kind of looked at me funny, so I thought he was drunk or high,” Sanabria told police.

Sanabria said he went back inside to put on his shirt and shoes. When he came back out, he saw the man walking north on Colman Street. Sanabria saw blood on the car behind the trailer.

Police arrived and tried to make sense of the situation. A woman from a few houses up the street approached police to say it appeared that somebody was trying to break into a house.

The woman, who declined to give her name, said she saw a man come from behind the bushes and try to open the door to 166 Colman St. She knows her neighbors and knew he didn’t live there, so she asked the cops if they were looking for somebody.

Police rushed over and, by 9:45 p.m., the man was getting into an ambulance. A K-9 emerged from a police cruiser but was back from tracking within 10 minutes, and about 10 p.m., police began clearing the scene.

Officers were continuing to investigate.

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