Norwich man says he was attacked while trying to help neighbor
NORWICH — On Halloween night, Neil O’Brien, a resident of the Wequonnoc Village Apartments complex, heard a scanner alert notifying him that a neighbor was possibly having a heart attack. The 48-year-old U.S. Navy veteran and former volunteer firefighter left his apartment and walked two doors down to where the supposed victim was struggling. “The man’s son let me in and I saw his father on the floor against the stove,” O’Brien said. O’Brien noticed the older man’s color was off and applied a sternum rub to assess his level of consciousness while trying to collect to basic med...