(Updated) City police have arrested a 48-year-old New Havener for allegedly stabbing to death 47-year-old Travis James during a fight at a Whalley Avenue convenience store in the early hours of Saturday morning.
City police spokesperson Officer Christian Bruckhart sent out an email press release noting that, at 1:09 a.m., Yale Protective Services at the St. Raphael’s hospital complex on Chapel Street notified city police of a walk-in victim with a gunshot wound.
Police later determined that the victim, James, had actually been stabbed, not shot. “James was unresponsive and in critical condition. Unfortunately, he succumbed to his injuries,” Bruckhart wrote.
Officers later learned that James had been at the Sam’s Mart on Whalley Avenue “when he got into an argument with an unknown individual. The altercation escalated, and James was stabbed.”
He was then driven to the hospital in a private vehicle. Detectives responded to both the hospital and Sam’s Mart to “process both scenes.”
On Monday morning, Bruckhart announced that city police had made an arrest. The arrestee was identified “based on video surveillance along with tips made by community members and New Haven Police officers who were familiar with him.”
An arrest warrant was secured on Sunday. Bruckhart wrote that the arrestee turned himself into the police without incident and was charged with murder. He is currently being held on $2 million bond and was due in court this morning.