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    Monday, May 06, 2024

    New Haven school official's home struck by gunfire

    NEW HAVEN (AP) — New Haven Police are trying to find out who may have shot multiple times at the home belonging to one of the city's top public school officials.

    Assistant Superintendent of Schools Paul Whyte told the New Haven Register that bullets entered an office, a bedroom and the living room of his home Friday evening. One neighbor told the newspaper she heard as many as six shots.

    “It was, ‘pop, pop, pop, pop.’ It wasn’t like a rash of shots,” said New Haven Board of Education member Tamiko Jackson-McArthur, who said she lives diagonally across from Whyte’s home in the city's Beaver Hills neighborhood. “It was single shots, like five or six.”

    Whyte said he, his wife and mother-in-law were home at the time of the shooting, which occurred at about 7:30 p.m.

    “Everyone’s physically OK. We’re just very shaken," said Whyte, who told the newspaper he didn't think he was specifically targeted.

    New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker said in a statement that he visited Whyte and his family Friday night after learning about the shooting. While no one was physically harmed, he said it's a “reminder that, with crime on the rise nationally and in our city, bullets have no name.”

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