Murder-suicide in family business

Police reportedly identified as Daniel Shwisha the man who gunned down his younger brother Gordon Shwisha on Monday, Oct. 8 at a family business in New Haven, before driving to Westport and committing suicide at his parents’ home.

Gordon Shwisha, 45, was shot to death outside New Haven-based Electrix Inc., a half-century-old architectural lighting manufacturing and design company, which has done work for a number of New York City landmarks like Lincoln Center and the Metropolitan Museum, as well as corporate work for Diageo North America”™s headquarters in Norwalk.

WTNH reported the gunman as 47-year-old Daniel Shwisha. A longtime Electrix employee told the New Haven Register “there had been some family squabbles” and that Gordon Schwisha terminated his brother’s job several months ago.

Editor’s note: Updated 2:42 p.m.