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By late Saturday, more than $204,000 had been donated through the social media campaign to help the Andrews family cover medical and other expenses. (To make a donation, click here.)
The vigil was canceled at the request of family members, who did not want to be labeled as victims of domestic violence after the violent attack last Tuesday morning.
But in the incident, which remains under investigation by Fairfield Police as well as State Police, Christopher Andrews, 51, is suspected of attacking his wife and three children.
When police responded to a 911 call from the home on Mountain Laurel Road, Officer Sean Fenton encountered Andrews in the driveway, police said. When Andrews approached the officer with a knife in his hand and refused repeated orders to drop it, Fenton shot and killed him, police said.
Inside the home, Andrews’ wife had been stabbed and his 12-year-old son bludgeoned with a bat, police said. His 13-year-old daughter, who had called 911, and his 15-year-old son, who wrestled the bat from his father, were also injured, police said.
The two older children have been released from the hospital, but the youngest son and his mother remain hospitalized, police have said.
Police have not determined a motive or reason for the violent attack, which friends have called completely out of character for Andrews, who worked as an attorney for a Manhattan law firm. Results of an autopsy, which would include tests for any drugs or medication in his body, have not been released.
But the Connecticut Post reported that Andrews, who lost a brother in the 9/11 terror attacks and whose mother died last month, was taking a prescription sleep aid and that he had suffered mood swings.
Click here to read the story at the Connecticut Post website.
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