Their headline: In dispute over chess, Bridgeport man stabs neighbor with shovel
http://www.newstimes.com/news/article/In-dispute-over-chess-Bridgeport-man-stabs-310935.php
Should the article get deleted off the news website here is the full text:
By Noelle Frampton, STAFF WRITER
Published: 11:06 p.m., Wednesday, January 6, 2010
BRIDGEPORT – A man was seriously wounded after he was stabbed in the stomach with a plastic snow shovel during a dispute over a chess game.
Ronald Swinton, 46, of Somers Street, is charged with stabbing his neighbor and one-time friend, Robert Spears, 39, of Wood Avenue, with the shovel when he came to his door Tuesday night, police said.
“These guys were fighting over a chess match that took place several weeks ago,” said Detective Keith Bryant, police spokesman. “It’s a bowl of beef stew.”
Swinton contended that Spears owes him money for the game, Bryant said, while Spears claims he won fair and square.
After staff at St. Vincent’s Medical Center alerted police about 9:40 p.m. that a man had been brought, via private car to the hospital in critical condition with a stab wound. Officers interviewed him and learned his attacker’s name and address.
Detectives and uniformed officers went to the Somers Street home and banged on the door, but initially Swinton refused to open it, Bryant said. When police threatened to break in, however, he opened up and allegedly said, " `Is this about that guy that I hit with the shovel?’ "
The charges against him weren’t clear Wednesday night as he was still being processed in the Police Department’s booking area.
Although Spears was initially listed in critical condition, the hospital upgraded him later that night to serious condition and indicated that, with surgery, he should recover, Bryant said.
Both Swinton and Spears, who live around the corner from each other, have arrest records, police said.
Yehp I’ve heard it all now - boy a plastic shovel, wow. I can’t imagine the ER staff after he came in and told the story.
