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5 days ago | 
darientimes.com | Peter Yankowski |Liz Hardaway
WEST HARTFORD — A New Britain man was hit and killed by a motor vehicle at the intersection of New Britain Avenue and South Main Street Sunday night, according to police. Police, firefighters and medics were called to the intersection around 9:50 p.m. for the crash, West Hartford police said in a statement provided by Capt. Aaron Vafiades.
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2 weeks ago | 
milfordmirror.com | Liz Hardaway |Ethan Fry
MILFORD — A man who pleaded guilty earlier this year to killing Milford mother of three Julie Minogue with an ax in 2022 was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday. Ewen Dewitt, 45, of Roxbury, pleaded guilty to murder and risk of injury to a child in March as part of a plea offer from Judge Kevin Russo for a 40-year prison sentence.
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2 weeks ago | 
ctinsider.com | Liz Hardaway |Ethan Fry
MILFORD - A man who pleaded guilty earlier this year to killing Milford mother of three Julie Minogue with an ax in 2022 is scheduled to be sentenced on Thursday. Ewen Dewitt, of Roxbury, is scheduled to appear in state Superior Court in Milford for the sentencing. He is currently being held in lieu of a $5 million bond.
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2 weeks ago | 
ctinsider.com | Liz Hardaway |Brian Zahn
NEW HAVEN - Losing Maleak Sweets to gun violence left behind a void, his grandmother said Wednesday. "There's unbearable silence where his laughter once filled each of our homes and our heart aches knowing that his promising future was cruelly stolen from him," said Yolanda Herring at a press event to announce an arrest in the killing of Sweets, 16, last year. Gabriyel Fraser, 21, was arrested Monday in connection with the crime.
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2 weeks ago | 
ctinsider.com | Alex Wood |Liz Hardaway
HARTFORD - A man who was shot and wounded by a Bristol officer after stealing a police cruiser was sentenced Tuesday to more than six years behind bars. Jimmie Shoemaker-Gonzalez, 42, was sentenced Tuesday to serve six years and nine monthsin prison followed by three years of probation by Judge David P. Gold at state Superior Court in Hartford, with the possibility of an additional eight years and three months in prison if he were to violate terms of his release.
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2 weeks ago | 
ctinsider.com | Peter Yankowski |Liz Hardaway
GROTON - A three-alarm fire broke out in a motel on Gold Star Highway in Groton early Tuesday, according to police. An employee at the Flagship Inn & Suites reported that there was a fire in the main office at around 1:07 a.m. Tuesday, according to the Town of Groton Police Department. At the scene, firefighters saw that the main building was engulfed in flames and that propane tanks were exploding near the back of the building, police said in a news release.
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2 weeks ago | 
ctinsider.com | Alex Wood |Liz Hardaway
HARTFORD - A former group home resident was sentenced Tuesday to two and a half years in prison after accepting a plea bargain last month in an October 2023 attack on a 65-year-old woman on a Manchester hiking trail, court records show. Daquan Clark-Blue, 32, was convicted of second-degree robbery, first-degree unlawful restraint and third-degree assault in the April 15 plea bargain at state Superior Court in Hartford, the records show. In the Hartford court on Tuesday, Judge David P.
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2 weeks ago | 
ctinsider.com | Jessica Bravo |Liz Hardaway
MANCHESTER - A Windsor Locks man was pronounced dead Tuesday morning after police said they found him unresponsive in a car. Investigators found the man, identified as 24-year-old Jordan Patterson, had a single gunshot wound to his torso, Manchester police Lt. Nicholas Reinert said in a news release. Patterson was found in a running car on the side of the road in the area of Woodland and Irving streets, according to Reinert.
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3 weeks ago | 
stamfordadvocate.com | Liz Hardaway |Pat Tomlinson
STAMFORD — Officers are expected to serve an arrest warrant charging a man with murder, the Police Department said Tuesday. Stamford police will be charging Moises Candollo-Urbaneja with murder, conspiracy to commit murder and two counts of risk of injury to a minor, according to Lt. Doug Deiso, head of the department’s Major Crimes Unit. The charges are in connection with the shooting death of Angel Samaniego in October 2024.
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3 weeks ago | 
ctinsider.com | Liz Hardaway |Pat Tomlinson
STAMFORD - Officers are expected to serve an arrest warrant charging a man with murder, the Police Department said Tuesday. Stamford police will be charging Moises Candollo-Urbaneja with murder, conspiracy to commit murder and two counts of risk of injury to a minor, according to Lt. Doug Deiso, head of the department's Major Crimes Unit. The charges are in connection with the shooting death of Angel Samaniego in October 2024.
