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May 29, 2009
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Meriden CT May 29 2009
myrecordjournal.com In a chilling 911 call Wednesday morning, police dispatchers heard a man apologize while a woman screamed. The man asked for officers to come to a house at 54 Spice Hill Drive. Seconds later, they heard five gunshots.
Police arrived to discover the bodies of Michelle Barrows, 32, and James Canty, 37, in the basement of the house. Both victims were dead of apparent gunshot wounds, police said, and a handgun was found near Canty’s body. Detectives are treating it as a murder-suicide.
Meriden police Sgt. Glenn Milslagle said officers weren’t sure what to expect inside the single-family house, in a quiet residential area of South Meriden, because the call was interrupted before dispatchers could get concrete information.
“Dispatchers received a call with a woman screaming in the background and a male says, ‘I’m sorry, please send police,’ then five shots are heard and the line went dead,” Milslagle said Wednesday afternoon after reviewing the 911 tape.
Police found additional weapons inside the home, Milslagle confirmed, but did not reveal what type or how many. No weapons other than the handgun were used in the killings, police said.
Access was restricted along Spice Hill Drive, a cul-de-sac off Deer Run Road, throughout most of the day as detectives continued to investigate what led to the shooting.
City records show that Canty and Barrows had purchased the home together in July 2007. Police said the two were dating, but according to neighbors they lived in the house together.
Canty was a licensed security guard in Connecticut and had completed requirements allowing him to carry a weapon while on the job, state police said. He was listed most recently as an employee of Dunbar Armored Inc., which provides armored car services for Connecticut businesses. Phone messages left for company representatives were not immediately returned Wednesday.
Neighbors said a teenager they believed to be Barrows’ son was also living in the house. Police said only that no one else was home at the time of the incident.
Residents in the neighborhood were told to remain in their homes for more than an hour while police made sure it was safe Wednesday morning as the Meriden SWAT team set up a perimeter around both the house and the neighborhood. Police said that response was standard procedure because officers knew from the emergency call that there was a gun in the home.
Two officers arrived on scene at approximately 8:30 a.m., moments after dispatch received the 911 call. Within 15 minutes, Billy Pasinski of Deer Run Road said, officers barricaded the road and began to swarm in and around the house. He said his family had heard popping, but he thought it was nothing more than a car backfiring.
For neighbor Elisandro Echevarria, of 47 Spice Hill Road, the response is one he will never forget.
Echevarria said he was home with his daughter when he looked out the window and saw police carrying high-powered rifles and assault weapons. When he attempted to talk with one officer, he was told to go to the back of his house – the farthest point from 54 Spice Hill Drive – and to stay away from windows.
“They were running through the yards and surrounding the home,” said Echevarria. “This is one of the quieter neighborhoods in Meriden. We came here to get away from this sort of thing, but it makes you realize anything can happen anywhere.”
myrecordjournal.com In a chilling 911 call Wednesday morning, police dispatchers heard a man apologize while a woman screamed. The man asked for officers to come to a house at 54 Spice Hill Drive. Seconds later, they heard five gunshots.
Police arrived to discover the bodies of Michelle Barrows, 32, and James Canty, 37, in the basement of the house. Both victims were dead of apparent gunshot wounds, police said, and a handgun was found near Canty’s body. Detectives are treating it as a murder-suicide.
Meriden police Sgt. Glenn Milslagle said officers weren’t sure what to expect inside the single-family house, in a quiet residential area of South Meriden, because the call was interrupted before dispatchers could get concrete information.
“Dispatchers received a call with a woman screaming in the background and a male says, ‘I’m sorry, please send police,’ then five shots are heard and the line went dead,” Milslagle said Wednesday afternoon after reviewing the 911 tape.
Police found additional weapons inside the home, Milslagle confirmed, but did not reveal what type or how many. No weapons other than the handgun were used in the killings, police said.
Access was restricted along Spice Hill Drive, a cul-de-sac off Deer Run Road, throughout most of the day as detectives continued to investigate what led to the shooting.
City records show that Canty and Barrows had purchased the home together in July 2007. Police said the two were dating, but according to neighbors they lived in the house together.
Canty was a licensed security guard in Connecticut and had completed requirements allowing him to carry a weapon while on the job, state police said. He was listed most recently as an employee of Dunbar Armored Inc., which provides armored car services for Connecticut businesses. Phone messages left for company representatives were not immediately returned Wednesday.
Neighbors said a teenager they believed to be Barrows’ son was also living in the house. Police said only that no one else was home at the time of the incident.
Residents in the neighborhood were told to remain in their homes for more than an hour while police made sure it was safe Wednesday morning as the Meriden SWAT team set up a perimeter around both the house and the neighborhood. Police said that response was standard procedure because officers knew from the emergency call that there was a gun in the home.
Two officers arrived on scene at approximately 8:30 a.m., moments after dispatch received the 911 call. Within 15 minutes, Billy Pasinski of Deer Run Road said, officers barricaded the road and began to swarm in and around the house. He said his family had heard popping, but he thought it was nothing more than a car backfiring.
For neighbor Elisandro Echevarria, of 47 Spice Hill Road, the response is one he will never forget.
Echevarria said he was home with his daughter when he looked out the window and saw police carrying high-powered rifles and assault weapons. When he attempted to talk with one officer, he was told to go to the back of his house – the farthest point from 54 Spice Hill Drive – and to stay away from windows.
“They were running through the yards and surrounding the home,” said Echevarria. “This is one of the quieter neighborhoods in Meriden. We came here to get away from this sort of thing, but it makes you realize anything can happen anywhere.”
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