Fourth of July celebration involving guns ends in Norwalk man’s arrest

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NORWALK — Fireworks weren’t enough for one Norwalk man, police said, as he chose to celebrate his Fourth of July by firing guns into Long Island Sound.

Police said they seized several guns and boxes of ammunition from Dwight St. John, 53, after his untraditional celebration took Marvin Beach residents by surprise.

Officers responded to Tonetta Circle around 10:30 p.m. July 4 on reports of gunshots. Police tracked the shots to the back yard of a waterfront home, where they said they found a heavily intoxicated St. John with several guns.

St. John, a former owner of the property who now lives across the street, told police he had gone to the property so that he could fire rounds into the water.

He was later arrested and his weapons — a .380 handgun, a 9-millimeter handgun and a Smith and Wesson shotgun, all of which were registered — were seized.

St. John was charged with first-degree reckless endangerment, illegal discharge of a firearm and third-degree criminal trespass. He was held on $25,000 bond and given a court date of July 15.