A 51-year-old attorney with a practice in Manhattan was shot to death by police officers in Connecticut yesterday after allegedly stabbing and attacking his wife and two of their children in their home.
Police responded to a domestic incident call at the Fairfield, Conn. home of Christopher Andrews, 51, at around 6 a.m. yesterday. There, they say they found Andrews holding a knife, and when he refused to drop it, officers shot him.
Andrews's wife, Kathleen Andrews, was found with stab wounds to the face and suffered injuries consistent with blunt-force trauma—she is in critical condition at Bridgeport Hospital. Their 12-year-old son had blunt-force wounds to the head and face, and was taken to Yale-New Haven Hospital in critical condition. Two other children, ages 15 and 13, suffered undisclosed injuries and were hospitalized at St. Vincent's Hospital.
Officials believe Andrews attacked his family with a baseball bat that his 15-year-old son managed to wrest from him. The family was reportedly renting the Fairfield home at the time of the incident. "I'm still shocked. It's a nice family," a neighbor told the CT Post.
