
Bruno Matarazzo Jr.
Reporter at Republican-American
Republican-American reporter. Formerly at The Salem News and Foster's Daily Democrat.
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ctinsider.com | Bruno Matarazzo Jr.
WATERBURY - The state Supreme Court Friday ordered a new trial for a Waterbury man convicted of manslaughter with a firearm because the jury wasn't provided self-defense instructions even though the judge had provided such instructions for the murder charge. Robert Williams, 53, was acquitted by a jury of murder but convicted of first-degree manslaughter with a firearm in the shooting death of Terry Smith following a weeklong trial. Article continues below this adThe shooting occurred Aug.
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ctinsider.com | Bruno Matarazzo Jr.
WATERBURY - A Waterbury man convicted in a 1995 murder will be resentenced Friday after a state appellate court ruling cleared the way for a second look at his decades-old punishment. Anthony Sinchak, 68, is serving a 96-year prison sentence for the murder of Kathy Gianni, whom he shot and killed at a Waterbury bar in 1995, and then tried to set fire to the bar and kidnapped two witnesses in an attempt to cover up the crime.
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ctinsider.com | Bruno Matarazzo Jr.
SOUTHBURY - The young girl who police allege was sexually assaulted and featured in a trove of child sex abuse material won a $32 million civil judgement against Edgar Mills, the 75-year-old suspect in the case. Mills was arrested by Southbury police on Dec. 18, 2024, on five counts of first-degree sexual assault, 13 counts of fourth-degree sexual assault, first-degree illegal possession of child pornography, risk of injury to a child and employing a minor in an obscene performance.
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ctinsider.com | Bruno Matarazzo Jr.
WATERBURY - The Office of the Chief Public Defender in Hartford is taking over the defense of a 19-year-old Waterbury resident accused of shooting multiple people at the Brass Mill Center mall last week, after a television news crew covering the suspect's arraignment placed a microphone on the defense table during the hearing.
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ctinsider.com | Bruno Matarazzo Jr.
WATERBURY - There's no dispute that Michael Anderson fired the gun that killed a 28-year-old Waterbury man nearly three years ago. What is in dispute is whether Anderson acted in self-defense. "It's not a whodunnit," Anderson's attorney Martin Minnella said. "It's a why dunnit."Anderson, 63, the longtime owner of the now-closed Mikey's Jamaican Restaurant in the 700 block of East Main Street, is charged with murder in the shooting death of Sebastian Olavarria during a confrontation Aug. 13, 2022.
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