New Haven’s latest homicide took place indoors, involving two people who got into an argument over a game.
So stated Assistant Police Chief Karl Jacobson, in reference to the Wednesday evening fatal shooting of a 34-year-old New Haven man named Adrian Barwise by a 28-year-old New Haven man inside a house on Sherman Parkway.
“It wasn’t random street violence,” Jacobson said.
Alerted by 911 calls around 8:30 p.m., officers arrived at the residence to find the victim lying on the floor. He’d been shot twice. Medics pronounced him dead at the scene.
The alleged shooter told police he fired in self-defense after the other man threatened him with a knife. The shooter had a permit for his weapon.
Details have not been confirmed, as police continue to investigate the incident.
Click here more about the city’s reaction to that incident and a recent spate of gun violence
34 and 28 year old "men" fighting over a game.... this is not COVID-caused. To take someone's life over a game?!?!?! People have already lost their minds and their way. COVID has pushed them over the edge. The feeling of being able to do as you please, without consequences, without enforcement of laws, without fear of God, without remorse or pity. The man in the streets is imitating what the great and powerful do!
THIS is what has brought us to where we are today. It is frightening to behold.