One dead, one seriously injured in stabbing at the Old Lyme Big Y
Old Lyme — One person is dead and another suffered serious injuries during an altercation that led to a stabbing inside the Big Y supermarket Sunday afternoon.
Police arrived at the supermarket in the Old Lyme Marketplace shopping center on Route 1 at about 2:15 p.m. Sunday and found two men with stab wounds at the back of the store near the frozen food section, state police Central District Major Crimes unit spokesman Lt. Michael Kostrzewa said Sunday evening.
The two men knew each other, Kostrzewa said.
One of the men was taken to Middlesex Hospital's Shoreline Hospital in Westbrook, where he was pronounced dead. The other man, who appeared to be in his 20s or 30s, was taken by Life Star helicopter to Yale New Haven Hospital and was undergoing surgery Sunday night. Police said he was in critical condition.
One of the men was an employee of the store, but Kostrzewa did not say which one.
Police interviewed customers and other store employees for several hours Sunday afternoon, as dozens of people arrived at the store throughout the evening only to find police tape and a State Police Major Crimes Unit vehicle blocking the door.
The store was closed most of Sunday afternoon and did not open later in the night. Employees milled around the front of the building waiting to be interviewed, and several people who left the store declined to comment on the incident. Police took turns interviewing individual witnesses in several cruisers parked in front of the store throughout the afternoon.
Detectives from State Police Central District Major Crime are investigating, Kostrzewa said.
State police spokeswoman Trooper First Class Kelly Grant said the state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will conduct an autopsy on the deceased victim. State police have not identified the victims pending notification of next of kin.
A spokesman for Big Y, which is headquartered in Springfield, Mass., and has 80 stores in Connecticut and Massachusetts, could not be reached to comment Sunday.
If police deem the man's death to be murder, it would be the first since 2007, when Old Lyme resident Craig Sadosky became frustrated with his then-girlfriend's 3-year-old son while the two were walking and beat him to death.
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