Teens have started jumping out of cars and attacking homeless people sleeping on the street in Fair Haven, according to a veteran street outreach worker.
The outreach worker, Phil Costello, reported that he has encountered six people injured in attacks in the past two weeks.
“A group of kids will pull up next to a homeless person sleeping on the street and attack them and actually beat them. There isn’t any rhyme or reason, and the attacks seem to be random on whoever is on the street at night. A lot of times, these people are just sleeping, and they get attacked in their sleeping bags,” Costello said during a conversation Tuesday along with two fellow New Haven homeless-outreach workers on WNHH FM’s “Dateline New Haven” program…