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At the time of the East End murders, Webb lived in Bridgeport with his sister, whose apartment was within the 10-block radius where the murders occurred. He was employed as a security guard in the neighboring town of Fairfield until moving to Georgia in August 1993, and afterwards, the murders appeared to have ceased. [7]
In 1997, while awaiting trial for the Bridgeport murders, he was charged and convicted of distributing a letter from prison, upon which allegedly an incitement to murder a gang member was encoded. The Connecticut Supreme Court went on to reverse this decision. [5] Vassell was convicted of two murders and sentenced to 120 years in prison.
Lauren Smith-Fields (January 23, 1998 — December 12, 2021) [1] was a woman living in Bridgeport, Connecticut. On the morning of Sunday, December 12, 2021, she was allegedly found unresponsive in bed by her Bumble date, Matthew LaFountain.
The total offense rate in Connecticut is 1,718 offenses per 100,000 (as of 2021), considerably below the national rate of 2,329 per 100,000. [1] The report also includes Crime Index statistics, used to compare across states, which is based on the rates of several crimes against persons (murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault), and several property crimes (burglary, larceny-theft, and ...
Stamford hotel homicide suspects found in New York . Police said 29-year-old Rohith Gurumurthy, of Bridgeport, was operating the motorcycle, heading east on Waldemere Road and continuing on ...
[5] [13] On January 30, 2020, Richard was released from prison and sent to live at a halfway house in Bridgeport. [14] [15] Richard was released early because of "statutory good time," which allows sentences to be shortened for good behavior and jailhouse jobs. The State Department of Correction (DOC) listed Crafts's maximum release date as ...
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
Harold Israel (1903–1964) was an itinerant former serviceman wrongly accused of murdering a priest in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1924.The charges against Israel were dismissed by the prosecutor, Homer Stille Cummings, who later became Attorney General of the United States.