Police last week arrested a 36-year-old New Canaan man by warrant after surveillance footage at his apartment complex showed the man getting physical and acting aggressively toward his own aunt, who also lives there. The altercation unfolded at a Lakeview Avenue complex on the morning of Dec. 28, the Saturday between Christmas and New Year’s, according to an arrest warrant application obtained by NewCanaanite.com. At about 10:37 a.m., police responded to a report of an assault “that had just occurred,” according to the affidavit of Officer Michael Schnell that forms the basis of the application, signed by a state Superior Court judge.
There, officers met with the victim, who said that her nephew had “shoved her and spit on her during an altercation in the parking lot of the apartment complex,” according to the application,
The man told police a different story, saying that he and his aunt had been arguing recently because she disregarded “his request not to bring her boyfriend to visit [his] father in the hospital,” Schnell said in the affidavit. In the parking lot that morning, the man told police, his aunt “confronted him, yelled at him, bumped him with her chest and grabbed his face with her hand,” the application said.
