Police: 13 guns, nearly 200 casings recovered after Branford fatal standoff
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Branford Police investigate at 241 Main Str. on April 14, 2021, where they engaged fire with a shooter in a second-floor apartment the previous day.Arnold Gold / Hearst Connecticut Media
BRANFORD Investigators recovered 196 spent shell casings and 13 firearms none of them secured from Matthew Lee Walker’s second-floor apartment at 241 Main St. after his seven-hour standoff with police, police said.
Had Walker continued shooting bullets out of his apartment overlooking the Richlin store and Country Plaza, “he had thousands of rounds left,” said police Lt. Dominick Eula, who is supervising the investigation.
The armed standoff in the neighborhood off Main Street and Cherry Hill Road during which Walker, son of a Darien minister, shot one neighbor in the leg as the man stood in front of his own business ended with Walker, 38, dying by suicide , according to authorities.
Neighbor warned cops about Branford shooter; officer on leave amid probe, chief says
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Branford Police at the scene of a shooting on Main Street in Branford on April 13, 2021.Arnold Gold / Hearst Connecticut Media
The officer with whom the neighbor spoke on April 10 is now is out on paid administrative leave, pending an internal investigation, Chief of Police Jonathan Mulhern said.
In the wake of the standoff, that officer was placed on paid administrative leave Monday while the situation is investigated, Mulhern said Tuesday. He identified the officer as Shannon MacIsaac. MacIsaac has worked there since September 2019, said Deputy Chief John Alves.
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