A tragic domestic violence incident in Wolcott, Connecticut, results in the deaths of a 55-year-old woman and her 34-year-old son, both shot by the woman’s estranged husband during a move-out dispute. As the father attempted to remove his belongings, tensions escalated into a confrontation that ended with him fatally shooting both family members before being shot himself by a family friend who intervened.
Police report that the father had been estranged from his wife for about a year, and the shooting followed a verbal altercation while they were packing. The friend, a registered gun owner, acted in what authorities describe as self-defense after witnessing the violence. Law enforcement officials state that there is no ongoing threat to the public and that an investigation is underway into this unfortunate series of events.
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