Suspect in Bridgeport Murder Arrested

Police have arrested the suspect in a murder in Bridgeport. 

Two men were shot outside 201 Bretton St. around 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 18 and police said 18-year-old Gregory Francilme died of his injuries at St. Vincent’s Medical Center. 

Police identified 19-year-old Tikhari Morton as a suspect that night and took him into custody with help from Waterbury police, police said. 

Morton told detectives he shot both victims, police said. 

He was held in Waterbury for alleged crimes he committed there and Bridgeport police obtained an arrest warrant charging Morton with murder, criminal attempt at murder, first-degree assault and weapons offenses, police said. 

He appeared in Bridgeport Superior Court on Friday. 

Detectives from the Bridgeport police robbery squad also obtained a warrant charging Morton in a separate robbery on March 17. 

He was charged with first-degree robbery, threatening in the first degree, criminal use of a firearm and third-degree larceny. 

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