A fatal stabbing took place Saturday at the APT Foundation’s Congress Avenue methadone clinic, which neighbors and cops blame for running down the neighborhood.
Officers were called the clinic, which is down the street from the John C. Daniels School, at 10:35 a.m. “after it was reported someone there had been stabbed during a fight,” police spokesman Officer David Hartman wrote in a release.
EMTs rushed the victim, Keith Wylie, 51, of Stanley Street, to Yale-New Haven, where he died from his wounds a half hour later.
Witnesses offered a description of a suspect to police, who subsequently arrested a 33-year-old Chapel Street man and charged him with first-degree manslaughter.
I can almost bet that because the stabbing death occurred at a methadone clinic the"APT FOUNDATION" that people will automatically think that somehow everyone who goes to a methadone clinic is a bad person that's a drug addicted menace. When in reality the overwhelming majority of people who attend these clinics are everyday hard working people who happen to have a disease called addiction and are there for treatment the same way you would treat any other disease. So when something bad occurs near or in the vicinity of a methadone clinic the public automatically assumes that the methadone clinic itself is to blame. When in reality I have inside information that neither the victim nor the suspect where even patients at this methadone clinic and I think methadone overall has a very negative stereotype around it until you meet somebody's people you don't realize that they are just normal people like you would have in your family search is a cousin of BROTHER or any kind a relative. Strictly speaking from an outsiders perspective that without the "APT FOUNDATION"in the smaller similar clinics these people with the disease of addiction would have no place to go. And I think that would have a dramatic effect on the crime rates in New Haven. The "APT FOUNDATION" saves lives on a weekly basis in the staff there deal with some of the people there other agencies do not want to deal with without the APT FOUNDATION there would be about 6000 drug addicted people with nowhere to go for help.