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Three supervisors with the Major Crimes Division are facing discipline after a group text message suggesting a wager on the city’s first homicide of 2021 led to a department-wide investigation. Lieutenant Paul Cicero and Major Crimes Division Sergeants Jeffrey Morrison and Anthony Rykowski are all facing disciplinary action. Officials said Detective Jeffrey Placzek sent a text message to 20 people,…

The Waterbury community is mourning the life of a beloved UPS driver. Nathan Burk, 28, died at a hospital after he was seriously assaulted on the job, according to state police. Burk’s co-worker, 19-year-old Elijah Bertrand, is facing a murder charge after police searched for him for hours. He was taken into custody in Plymouth on Wednesday afternoon. Loved ones…

The Waterbury community is mourning the life of a beloved UPS driver.

A suspect is in custody in the deadly assault of a UPS driver Tuesday night in Watertown, according to state police.

Police said they have arrested a man in connection to the murder of a Bristol woman Sunday night. Officials said they received a call requested that officers respond to a home on Vance Drive to check on the wellbeing of a female resident. The caller told police that he received a phone call from a male resident of that address…

An independent review cited “leadership failures” and said “the command climate at Fort Hood has been permissive of sexual harassment/sexual assault.”

A Connecticut physical therapist charged with killing his wife and three children at their Florida home told his sister in a phone call from jail that he couldn’t have stopped his family from being slain — because he wasn’t around.

Police have identified the man who died after being stabbed in Hartford on Saturday night. Officers responded to the area of 194 Maple Avenue just after 6:30 p.m. on Halloween and found 48-year-old Bryan Monroe suffering from multiple stab wounds. Monroe was rushed to Hartford Hospital, where he later died, according to police. Hartford’s Major Crimes Division is investigating the…

A 30-year-old Paterson man surrendered to police Saturday in connection with the killing of an eight-months pregnant woman whom he allegedly shot multiple times. The victim, identified only as R.L., delivered a healthy baby, then died. According to prosecutors, Donqua Thomas lay in wait for the victim for 90 minutes, parking his vehicle just outside her home in Paterson and…

Donny Jackson, 40, was arrested after allegedly abducting his two daughters, who were later found safe. It is unclear what his relationship is to the two dead boys.

Police have arrested a man who they believe killed his estranged girlfriend in a Bridgeport home Sunday night. Corey Ramos, 30, was arrested while trying to illegally cross the Canadian border from Northern Vermont on Monday. Investigators learned Ramos crossed into the state of Vermont on Sunday after 40-year-old Jennifer Brelsford was killed. Detectives then told officers in New England…

Waterbury police are trying to find a suspect wanted on murder charges in the shooting death of a 27-year-old. Police said 24-year-old Jacob Morales is wanted for the shooting death of 27-year-old Luis Robert Vazquez. Vazquez was found with a gunshot wounds after a car crash on Walnut Avenue Wednesday. He died of his injuries. Morales is facing charges of…

A man was found dead after a shooting and car crash in Waterbury Wednesday night. The Waterbury Police and EMS were called to Walnut Avenue at 6:42 p.m. for reports of gunshots with one victim hit. According to police, they located a 27-year-old male victim in the driver’s seat of a 2020 KIA Optima that was involved in a motor…

Police said they found two people dead while responding to a report of an attack on Gem Drive Tuesday.

Police have identified the man killed in a shooting in Waterbury early Saturday morning. Officials were called to Violet Street just after 12 a.m. for a report that someone was shot. When officers arrived, a crowd was standing around an adult male victim lying on his back in the parking lot of 12 Violet Street. Marcus Darby, 46, of Waterbury,…

A 64-year-old man was found dead in his Hartford Home and police have arrested his roommate and charged him with murder. Police responded to Asylum Avenue just after 3:30 p.m. Sunday to check on 64-year-old Victor King after a tenant reported not seeing his neighbor in more than a day and officers found King’s body on the kitchen floor,...

Former homicide detective turned television producer Pete Carrillo dishes on his new true crime series “Journey to Justice.”

Authorities in central Florida have arrested two men and one woman in the killings of three best friends who had gathered last Friday for a night of fishing.

The former personal assistant to a tech entrepreneur who was gruesomely killed and beheaded in his luxury New York City apartment earlier this week is in custody facing murder charges, police officials announced Friday. The New York City Police Department identified the assistant as 21-year-old Tyrese Haspil of Brooklyn. Law enforcement sources tell News 4 their relationship turned bitter when…