Domestic dispute led to fatal Bloomfield shooting, cops say

A 37-year-old woman has been arrested after a man was shot to death at her Filley Street home in Bloomfield late Friday night, police said.

The man was shot in the head during a domestic argument, police said.

Marvyann Duncan of Bloomfield was arrested. As of Saturday, she was still being evaluated at a Hartford-area hospital, and investigators were working with state prosecutors to decide exactly how to charge her.

“The detective unit is working with the state’s attorney on how to proceed with arraignment or arrest warrant as the suspect/ accused is still at the hospital for evaluation,” Bloomfield police Capt. Stephen Hajdasz said Saturday afternoon. “(A) charge of murder has been acknowledged by the state’s attorney, other charges may be brought.”

State law limits what police can say about domestic violence-related crimes, so neither the victim’s name nor his relationship to Duncan are being disclosed.

Bloomfield police got a call about a shooting at 22 Filley St. around 10:40 p.m. Friday. Arriving officers were met by a woman who said she’d just fired her gun, Hajdasz reported.

Officers found the victim, a 39-year-old man, with a gunshot wound to the head. An ambulance took him to St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, but he was pronounced dead in the emergency room, Hajdasz said.

“Preliminary information indicates that the victim and the woman were involved in a domestic dispute that escalated to an altercation culminating with the female shooting a handgun,” Hajdasz wrote.

Duncan was in the news last spring. She was with her 8-year-old son at the Silas Deane Pawn Shop when she said she heard a white man walking nearby, repeating a racial epithet and a slur against women. Police charged David Pfiffner, 43, of Granby with breach of peace; his case has been continued to June 24.