Police Nab Suspect in 2012 Bridgeport Homicide

Police have arrested the man accused of stabbing and killing a Bridgeport resident in 2012.

According to police, Mario Chavez, 53, who previously lived in the city and now resides in Miami, was caught in Florida and charged as a fugitive from justice earlier this month.

He was extradited to Bridgeport on Tuesday and will be charged in the stabbing death of 23-year-old Francisco Barbosa-Vega on the 500 block of Arctic Street on May 27, 2012.

Police said Chavez and another man pulled up to a home on Arctic Street, got out of a car and started fighting.

Barbosa-Vega, who was sitting on the porch watching the scene unfold, tried to break up the fight, and Chavez stabbed him in the chest, according to police.

At the time, police said Barbosa-Vega was trying to save a woman who was being assaulted.

Chavez fled the state shortly thereafter and was arrested Dec. 5 in Florida. He has been charged with murder.

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