Month: October 2013

#Bridgeport, CT – Oct. 29, 2013 – A 34-year-old woman faces assault charges after she stabbed her teen-aged son during a dispute early this morning.

Officer Joshua Ortiz was called to a Jackson Avenue address on a report of an assault and spoke there with the victim and a relative of the victim. The victim stated that he was at his mother’s house  on Wood Avenue earlier and she asked him to take out the garbage. A dispute happened when he stated that he would take the garbage out in the morning.

The mother, Jacqueline  Morris, allegedly stabbed the teen in the back. He then walked back to his relative’s house on Jackson Avenue.

Morris was charged with second-degree assault, risk of injury to a minor and disorderly conduct. Her bond was set at $10,000.

Bill Kaempffer

Public Safety Spokesman

Bridgeport Police Department

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2:21am–#Bridgeport CT–A mother stabbed her son with a knife at 118 Wood Avenue.  Police initially had trouble gaining entry to the apartment but the mother did finally come to the door and admitted to the stabbing.  One knife in evidence.  Wounds do not sound life threatening.

1:11am–#Fairfield CT–A driver veered off the side of the road going up hill in the 700 block of Black Rock Turnpike hit a guy line and hit a utility pole which flip his vehicle in the road.  The deployed airbags created a smoky condition which was thought to be a fire in the vehicle. People who came out to hear what the commotion was helped the man out of the vehicle.

11:40pm–#Shelton CT– A fire at the Avalon Apartments on Canal Street.  A fire started in a bathroom on the 4th floor which extended to the third floor apartment below.  Derby firefighters assisted in battling the fire.