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Stray Bullet Hits Western Mass Home: Crime-Fighting Tech Tool Led To Bust, Police Say Stray Bullet Hits Western Mass Home: Crime-Fighting Tech Tool Led To Bust, Police Say
Stray Bullet Hits Western Mass Home: Crime-Fighting Tech Tool Led To Bust, Police Say A Hampden County woman called police earlier this week after she said someone fired a bullet through her bedroom window in the middle of the night, authorities said.  Dereck Carattini, 20, was arrested and charged following the Friday, March 3, shooting, Holyoke officials said. But investigators said the bust was thanks to a piece of technology that's becoming a valuable tool for police departments.  ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection network that uses sound-surveillance devices to pinpoint the area where a gun was fired, alerted Holyoke police officers to two potential shots a…

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