"Then you get 50 or 60 kids partying out there and it's obviously a dangerous situation,” he said.
Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin said it was lucky there were no fatalities.
He said: "There are dozens of injuries, but we are very lucky that there were no fatalities and no known critical injuries from what could have been a truly tragic incident.”
Trinity College is a liberal arts school in Hartford with about 2,200 students. It's the second-oldest college in Connecticut after Yale.