NEW HAVEN - Jordan Linblad is 18 years lasting and that's how lengthy of a rap he was handed Friday in Superior Court, for shooting two other juvenile men terminal October. Judge Richard Damiani imposed the sentence, to be suspended after Linblad serves 14 years. He will then phiz three years of probation. Before he agreed to the sentencing structure and not seeking a trial, Linblad had faced charges of attempted slaughter in the shooting of Kyshaun Kendall and Darrell Gilmore on Dixwell Avenue. The shootings took state on Oct. 7, Linblad's 18th birthday.
Kendall, 19, of Newhall Street, Hamden, was critically injured by the bullets from Linblad's.22-caliber pistol. He was nip in the head, but survived. Gilmore, 17, of 60 Third St., Hamden, was snapshot in the arm and needed clinic treatment.
Linblad was sentenced Friday on one judge of first-degree assault. He also received one-year sentences on two counts of carrying a handgun without a permit. The weapons sentences will be served concurrently with the violation sentence. According to Hamden police, Linblad began shooting at 5:15 p.m. on First Street, but he did not hit anybody in that incident.
Police find creditable he was seeking repayment against another juvenile who allegedly stabbed him with a screwdriver a month earlier. Police said several people, including Kendall and Gilmore, approached the construct door of Linblad's billet on Dixwell Avenue at about 6:40 p.m. that same night, in retaliation for the earlier gunfire. That's when Linblad opened fire.
Linblad's MySpace foot-boy said at that time: "listen…i got bullets 4 each of u if nuttin else at least i no my dreams is reachable." The missive didn't spell out any individual target. The locale also had several pictures, including one of Linblad posed with his lift exhausted as if a gun. The caption said: "if u no me u no wat im packin n it aint my finger.
" Linblad and his two victims had attended Hamden High School. Randall Beach can be reached at or 789-5766. Reader Comments The following are comments from the readers. In no sense do they paint the hold of nhregister.com.
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