According to Connecticut State Police, a call came into Fairfield's dispatch center from the home of Christopher Andrews, an attorney who worked in New York City.
The female caller asked for help, and officers were dispatched to Andrews' home. When they arrived, Andrews was standing in his front yard with his son, who was wielding a baseball bat defensively.
A state police spokesman claims Andrews was carrying an unspecified weapon the responding officers had ordered him to drop. Instead, police allege Andrews "advanced" towards the officers, prompting one of them to open fire.
Andrews was taken to a nearby hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead.
Andrews' son was instructed to let go of the bat, and did, later telling officers he managed to wrestle the weapon from his father's grip. The boy also told detectives his father had been using the bat to attack his mother and siblings.
According to police, Andrews' three teenaged children sustained stab wounds and slices in the Tuesday morning attack, while his wife was stabbed in the head and beaten with the bat.
Police aren't releasing the names of the four victims, who are expected to make full recoveries.
Investigators are trying to piece together a possible motive for Tuesday's violence, and an internal investigation into the fatal shooting is already underway.
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