HAMDEN, Conn. (WTIC Radio) - Hamden detectives are investigating an early morning shooting of a 46-year-old man.
Officers responded to a report of a shooting at around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday in the area of Arch Street and Bowen Street.
Police found the 46-year-old victim with a gunshot wound to the leg.
According to police, investigation revealed that the victim was panhandling in the parking lot at 144 Arch Street when he got involved in a verbal dispute with the operator of a gray sedan.
After the victim walked eastbound on Arch Street, police said the operator of the gray sedan drove to his location, "pulled out a gun" and shot at him "three or four times."
The victim was transported to Yale-New Haven Hospital with non-life threatening injuries, police said.
Hamden police ask anyone with information to contact Detective Andrew Lipford at (203) 230-4055.