Latest Hour Headline: Police arrest Norwalk family; salsa to blame

Saturday was of course, pARTy in the Park, but this family proved that the rainy weather made some people a little stir crazy:

At about 4 p.m. Saturday, officers responded to 6 Broad St. on a report of an unwanted guest, said Sgt. Praveen John, of the Norwalk Police Department. 

A father and son living there had asked the mother, who was not on the apartment’s lease, to leave, said John. In anger over the situation, she grabbed a jar of red salsa, and hurled it at her son; missing him, but striking the wall, he said.

Jacqueline Zwart, 47, who gave 6 Broad St. as her address, was then arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. 

With the mother out of the house and the situation resolved, the father and son continued to drink alcohol, said John. At about 10 p.m. the two got into an argument of the their own, he said. 

According to the police report, during the altercation, the father exited the apartment and began screaming on the front lawn. Witnesses reportedly told police that the father screamed to the neighborhood that his son was going to kill him. One neighbor, who peered out the window during the commotion, called police and said the father was carrying a handgun and the son was laying on the floor motionless. 

Witnesses assumed the splattered salsa, which hadn’t been wiped from the wall, was the blood of the victim, said John. 

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