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Branford standoff neighbor: He could have shot me FacebookTwitterEmail John Chambers, owner of Shelley s Garden Center. Behind him is the building from where a shooter fired during a standoff with police Tuesday.Arnold Gold / Hearst Connecticut Media BRANFORD John Chambers, owner of Shelley’s Garden Center, and several neighbors who also were in the line of fire during Tuesday’s seven-hour standoff with a well-armed man in a second-floor apartment of a house at 241 Main St., all know that it could have been so much worse. They’re all brutally aware that instead of standing outside talking about it on Wednesday, they could be hospitalized like neighbor Ashwin Patel, owner of Shoreline Wine & Spirits, who had non-life-threatening injuries after being shot and, according to his son, still was in the hospital Wednesday. ....