Amanda Pitts
Reporter at WVIT-TV (West Hartford, CT)
Reporter for NBC CT 🦚 MA born, RI raised ⚓️ Previously @wpri12, @abc6, @wicztv
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6 days ago |
nbcboston.com | Amanda Pitts
Police are warning parents of an online child exploitation network that goes by the name "764."Predators befriend children using online messaging and gaming platforms, according to investigators, and coerce them into violent acts. Back in late 2023 and early 2024, police said the international group victimized a teenage girl in Vernon, which resulted in multiple swatting calls to local schools. Vernon police officers arrested the then-17-year-old last year and she was charged with conspiracy.
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1 week ago |
nbcchicago.com | Amanda Pitts
A new and concerning trend is gaining traction on TikTok, and it’s led to the evacuations of some schools across Connecticut. Students are recording themselves sticking items like pencils and springs into the charging ports of their Chromebooks to set them on fire. Newington High School was evacuated last week due to the trend, according to officials.
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1 week ago |
nbcconnecticut.com | Amanda Pitts
A new and concerning trend is gaining traction on TikTok, and it's led to the evacuations of some schools across Connecticut. Students are recording themselves sticking items like pencils and springs into the charging ports of their Chromebooks to set them on fire. Newington High School was evacuated last week due to the trend, according to officials.
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1 week ago |
nbcconnecticut.com | Amanda Pitts
A North Haven police officer credits his 9-year-old daughter with saving his life after he went into cardiac arrest. Officer Alex Sinanis said he started feeling off back in November of last year and made several trips to the hospital. "I started getting tightness in my chest the beginning of November, some shortness of breath," Sinanis said.
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2 weeks ago |
nbcnewyork.com | Amanda Pitts |LeAnne Gendreau
A man who is accused of following his 70-year-old former mother-in-law home from a mall and killing her with a baseball bat outside her Trumbull apartment has been charged with murder. Police said Ylli Shtopaku, 45, of Norwalk, attacked 70-year-old Lida Shape, outside the Ten-Trumbull apartment complex after she returned home with an acquaintance on Monday afternoon. Shtopaku told police that he blamed Shape for his divorce, according to the arrest warrant.
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