Shelton police have made a fifth arrest in connection to a stabbing at a party in May.
On Saturday Jamar Smith, a 21-year-old Derby man for whom Shelton police had an arrest warrant, was charged after a motor vehicle stop in Bridgeport, police said in a prepared statement.
Cops have charged a total of five people in connection to the stabbing, which occurred outside a party May 2. Police said no further arrests are expected.
Smith was charged with second-degree assault, aiding and abetting second-degree assault, and second-degree breach of peace.
Smith posted a $15,000 bond and is scheduled to appear at Superior Court in Derby July 22.
In a prepared statement police said Shelton Police Detective Christopher Nugent said staff at St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport contacted Shelton cops May 2 shortly after midnight “regarding a 19-year-old female that came into the hospital suffering from a stab wound which was reported to have occurred in Shelton.”
Police interviewed the woman, who said she was at a party in Shelton where a fight broke out and she was stabbed.
The woman was treated at the hospital for a cut to her head and a stab wound to her back, police said.
“A subsequent investigation by detectives revealed that a fight broke out between two females and several people that were at the party jumped into the fight,” Nugent’s statement said. “The fight reportedly began inside the residence and spilled outside, where it eventually ended.”
The statement did not indicate where the party took place.
