After looking at the photo on their main page of the officer, he’s lucky he wasn’t crushed by all the microphones.
Yes, this is international news, in a small town. My experience through the years has been that CT State Police Spokesman J.Paul Vance is pretty old school. He doesn’t say something just to make a statement, you can go to the bank with most of what he says. I am pretty sure any statement he makes as fact has been carefully vetted, and as close to the truth as he knows it to be. He is pretty good at turning aside speculation.