by Staff | Aug 12, 2013 8:26 am

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None of them were killed. None of the incidents were “major” news. But three people did get shot around town in separate incidents reported to police between 4:49 p.m. Sunday and 1:54 a.m. Monday.

One of the victims, a 23-year-old rapper named Jordan Rambert, was listed in critical condition at Yale-New Haven Hospital after someone shot him in the back at Ivy and Butler Street around 6 p.m., police said. He was putting up flyers at the time for a show at the weekly basketball tournament at the courts outside Lincoln-Bassett, police said.

An argument with “someone known to him” ended with a 41-year-old man getting shot in the face at Dixwell and Henry a little more than an hour earlier than that. Police described his injuries as “non-life-threatening.” The victim, who was brought to the hospital by a private car, told police that during the argument, the victim “tried to grab [a] gun from his would be assailant, at which time it fired. The bullet grazed the victim’s cheek,” according to police spokesman Officer David Hartman.

The Monday early-morning shooting took place at the Farnam Courts development at Grand and Hamilton. An 18-year-old was taken by the hospital for “treatment of a non-life-threatening wounds,” according to Hartman. He claimed to police—in a summary often offered at the early stages of investigations into shootings that end up developing quite different narratives later on—that “he’d been sitting on a utility box outside, when he heard

gunfire. He said when he heard the third shot he decided to run from the area. It was then that he realized he’d been hit by one of the bullets.”

That shooting took place not far from a strip joint on East Street where a 22-year-old Waterbury man was shot death early Sunday morning.