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Brawl At Wintergreen

000_0266%5B1%5D.jpgThe college dorm in Westville that’s not officially a college dorm got rowdy, and bloody, early Friday.

The blood was spillled inside Building 5 of Wintergreen of Westville Apartments on Blake Street. The developer of the complex originally got city permission to build the 293-unit complex in 2007 on the grave of an old factory by promising upscale apartments for adults. Instead it has become known as Animal House,” largely a rowdy de facto dorm for Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) and University of New Haven students.

(Photos are courtesy of a tenant in the building.)

Here’s what happened there early Friday morning, according to Lt. Martin Tchakirides, Westville district manager.

A call came into the police about 1:30 a.m. complaining of loud music. A second call followed, reporting a fight involving 10 to 15 people.

Two cop cruisers arrived in the parking lot soon after. The cops saw two young women looking out through a broken third-story window of Building 5, which houses some SCSU football players. 

The cops are here!” one of them announced.

By the time the cops arrived on the third floor, the hallway was empty.

000_0269%5B1%5D.jpgThey found someone who pointed them to a room where the combatants had allegedly fled. The officers heard noise inside. They banged on the door, announced they were police. No one answered.

The cops hung around, waiting. Twenty-five minutes later, they heard a female voice inside ask someone, Can we get out of the closet now?”

So the cops knocked again. This time they were let in. They found a half dozen or so SCSU students.

It was college kids. Nobody would fess up to it,” Tchakirides said.

They went so far as to say, We never heard you knocking on the door.’”

Later the police found an anonymous witness who said two male students had had an argument that led to pushing and shoving. There was a little alcohol involved,” Tchakirides said. One of the young men slipped, struck his head against the elevator and split his head open.”

Police weren’t able to locate the young man. They checked hospitals to see if anyone had come in with a bloody head. No luck.

Police made no arrests. Tchakirides said he plans to follow up with SCSU administrators about the students’ refusal to cooperate.

They should have answered the door,” he said.

One tenant, who was awakened by all the commotion, reported complaining to management the next morning, only to be told the students involved couldn’t be evicted over the incident: It’s hard to believe that with all the damage that was done, the worse that will probably happen,” the tenant said, is they have to pay for damages.

A call for comment to Wintergreen management was not returned Friday.

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