Smith was arrested in He was convicted in of Manslaughter in the Second Degree and sentenced to six years in prison. Morgan was arrested in February as a result of information received through "cold case" playing cards distributed to inmates throughout the Connecticut prison system. Dudley, 19, was fatally shot in the early morning hours of September 24, , while attending a party at the West Indian Social Club at Main Street in Hartford.
He was confronted on the dance floor by several males, one of whom pulled a handgun and shot him once in the chest. The arrest was the first resulting from information received as a result of the distribution of the cards, which feature the names and photographs of victims of unsolved homicides, missing persons and unidentified remains cases.
At the time of his arrest, he was being held in the custody of the Department of Correction in the unrelated shooting death of Edward Haslam in Hartford on October 3, , for which he has since been convicted. At a. Responding officers found Mr. Haslam, age 41, in his car suffering from a single gunshot wound to the chest in the parking lot of "Club Vibz" at Main Street. Haslam died of his injuries.
An autopsy performed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the chest and the case was ruled a homicide. Haslam was shot as he attempted to drive away while being robbed. His car crashed into a fence and utility pole where it was found by emergency personnel responding to the scene. Quan Morgan was arrested on May 21, Morgan was 21 years old at the time of his arrest.
He is serving a year prison term. Davis and Ackeem Riley were arrested in August and charged in the homicide of year-old Kerry Foster and wounding of a second, year-old teenager in a drive-by shooting that occurred in front of 50 Clark Street in Hartford on May 28, Charges against Riley are pending in Hartford Superior Court.
Davis was sentenced in May to serve a total effective sentence of years in prison. At the time of his arrest, Davis was in the custody of the Department of Correction serving a 9-year sentence for an unrelated crime. Officers ascertained that the victims had been standing in front of Clark Street when a vehicle or vehicles pulled up and numerous gunshots were fired at both teenagers.
The vehicle or vehicles then sped off. Officers found expended 9 mm casings and projectiles in front of Clark Street. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison plus an additional 15 years for another shooting that also occurred in The sentences will run concurrent to his sentence for the murder of Tray Davis. Fifteen-year-old Kerry Foster was suffering from gunshot wounds to the head and chest. The second victim, a year-old Hartford resident, was suffering from gunshot wounds to the back and groin.
Officers ascertained that the victims had been standing in front of Clark Street when a vehicle or vehicles pulled up and numerous gunshots were fired at them. Riley was 16 years old at the time of the shootings. Another man charged in the case, Paul Davis, was convicted in March following a trial in Hartford Superior Court. Tray was shot on November 17, , at approximately p.
Two other victims, a year-old male and a year-old male, were also discovered at the scene. All three were transported by ambulance to area hospitals. Tray was pronounced dead a short time later.
On December 5, , Riley, then age 18, was arrested by Hartford Police and charged in connection with the homicide. Tray was visiting his grandmother on November 17th and had been outside in the neighborhood and socializing with friends when he was killed.
A quiet boy with a strong bond to his twin sister, he appears to have been an innocent bystander. He was sentenced to serve life in prison without the possibility of release on the Capital Felony charge and years on the other charges. He died in prison in Lopez, age 17, was last heard from by relatives on January 2, She was found strangled on January 5, , in an apartment on Nelton Court in Hartford.
That conviction has since been vacated. Miranda was found guilty by a jury in Hartford Superior Court where he was sentenced in April to sixty years in prison. He is already incarcerated for his conviction for the Murder of Carmen Lopez. Mayra Cruz, age 13, was reported missing when she did not return home from school in Hartford on October 8, Miranda, who was age 51 at the time of his arrest in , was required to register on the State of Connecticut Sex Offender Registry as a result of his conviction for the May 29, , sexual assault of a year-old woman in West Hartford.
Torres, who was 16 years old at the time of the crime, was arrested on August 1, He subsequently pled guilty to Manslaughter in the First Degree and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Torres was arrested following an investigatory grand jury investigation into the Rodriguez homicide. Quiles, a resident of Middletown who was 25 years old when arrested on October 7, , was sentenced in March to five years in prison for Carrying a Pistol Without a Permit, Possession of Narcotics and Perjury for lying to the investigatory grand jury.
Officers located a year-old male lying on the sidewalk suffering from a single gunshot wound to the leg. He was transported to Hartford Hospital for treatment of a non-life threatening injury. Rodriguez, a year-old resident of Avon, Connecticut, was subsequently found in the parking lot suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest. He was transported to St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at a. Foster was 47 years old at the time of his arrest and incarcerated in Virginia for an unrelated crime.
Police found the victim in the early morning hours of January 22, , bleeding profusely from her face. Her injuries required seven stitches over one eye.
The law applicable to the case placed a five-year statute of limitations on the prosecution of Sexual Assault and Robbery committed in However, there is no statute of limitations on the prosecution of Kidnapping in the First Degree, the offense to which Foster pled guilty more than twenty years after the crime was committed. He was sentenced in April to serve 11 years in prison for the kidnapping conviction.
The sentence is addition to the sentence he received for other offenses. On April 15, , Snelgrove was sentenced to life in prison, which is defined by state law as a term of sixty years.
The conviction was affirmed by the Connecticut Supreme Court, which in September rejected an appeal brought on behalf of Snelgrove challenging the jury's guilty verdict. The victim was last seen with Snelgrove leaving a bar on Capitol Avenue in Hartford on September 21, Her body was discovered in Hopkinton, Rhode Island, in January of Snelgrove was arrested in He has previous convictions for Manslaughter and Attempted Murder from two separate incidents that occurred in New Jersey in the s.
Five deaths occurred in a particular area of Asylum Hill, and three of the victims were tied to Johnson by DNA evidence. Ross, Sr. Ashton in Burlington, Connecticut. Ali, who lived in Waterbury, Connecticut, at the time of his arrest, was arrested in November Ashton was found dead in his Burlington home on May 11, An autopsy determined the cause of death to be multiple stab wounds and also showed that the year-old victim had suffered asphyxia by strangulation.
Instrumental to the case was fingerprint and DNA evidence recovered from the scene of the crime and analyzed by the State Police Forensic Laboratory. Ali was sentenced in November to a term of 25 years to life imprisonment. The Connecticut Appellate Court rejected an appeal filed on his behalf and upheld his conviction in a decision officially released on November 29, Cusano was reported missing on January 4, Investigation by the Shelton Police Department led police investigating her disappearance to the Hartford apartment where McArthur lived.
The Hartford Police Department joined the investigation. The crime scene was processed and police were subsequently able to obtain an arrest warrant for McArthur before her remains were found. McArthur subsequently led detectives to the victim's remains in a wooded area of Suffield, Connecticut, in The Connecticut Appellate Court upheld his conviction in June Poulin was arrested at her home in New York City on March 2, , and subsequently extradited to Connecticut.
The Office of the Chief State Medical Examiner had initially attributed the death of the six-week-old child to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, but the cause of death was reclassified as "undetermined" after investigators reviewed a previously sealed case report from the State of Connecticut Department of Children and Families.
A law enacted in gave investigators access to those files. Poulin is serving a year prison sentence. The year-old victim died 13 days after he was found severely beaten in the family home in the Terryville section of Plymouth, Connecticut, on October 2, Shortly after her husband's death, Ms.
Pelletier returned to her native New Brunswick, Canada. The State of Connecticut successfully extradited her in July on a warrant charging her with Murder as an Accessory. Pelletier planned the murder with her then-boyfriend, Jose Rubert. Bridgeport police investigate at the scene of a shooting at a home on Park Terrace in Bridgeport, Conn.
Bridgeport Police investigate along Pequonnock Ave. Bridgeport police at the scene of an investigation along Pequonnock Ave. The numbers, however, also show that murders in the state jumped 36 percent, from 77 to from to ; Hartford had an increase of 15 homicides and Bridgeport reported 11 more than the previous year. Smaller numbers, like an increase of three murders in New Britain and an increase of two each in Norwalk and Stratford, also contributed to pushing the total number up.
There are also various areas including Torrington, Vernon, Bristol and Manchester, which each saw an increase by one homicide from to But there were also declines in homicide totals for some places — including New Haven, which saw a drop of six killings from to ; and East Hartford, which saw three fewer murders between the two years.
Several areas saw a decrease of one in the overall number of killings. The Federal Bureau of Investigation released its annual Crime in Connecticut report earlier this week with data based on monthly reports of crime activity provided to the Uniform Crime Reporting program at the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection.
The page report can be found at bit. So far in , killings in the city have declined considerably, with Bridgeport police having confirmed seven homicides. Is this the Connecticut we want? Is this the world we want? Where our children are being killed? Marichal Monts, senior pastor of the Citadel of Love in Hartford. Lamont initially said he was under the impression that crime in the state was not escalating. He later conceded he had not seen the figures provided by Dr.
James Gill, who included the data in the testimony he will make to the Appropriations Committee Tuesday.
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