Connecticut
Connecticut police officer under criminal investigation for using stun gun on suspect 3 times
A Connecticut police officer shocked a shoplifting suspect three times with a stun gun, including when the man was on the ground apologizing, according to police body camera video released Monday as officials announced criminal and internal affairs investigations.
Naugatuck Officer Nicholas Kehoss is seen on the video pulling the stun gun trigger for about five seconds during each of the three times. Kehoss also yells at the man, tells him to “shut up” and calls him an “idiot” during the arrest on Oct. 14, according to the video.
Police said the man, Jarell Day, 33, of Waterbury, was suspected of stealing $200 worth of beer in a robbery at a Naugatuck grocery store and later rammed police cruisers with a car as he fled from officers. Day crashed the car and fled on foot, but Kehoss caught up to him, according to the video.
Day was showing his hands when Kehoss ordered him to get on the ground and first fired the stun gun, the video shows. Day falls to the ground and Kehoss orders him to get on his stomach. Day rolls onto his side and tells the officer he is sorry, and Kehoss continues to yell at him to get onto his stomach and pulls the stun gun trigger a second time, the video shows.
Kehoss then orders Day to put his hands behind his back, according to the video. Day pleads, “No, no, please,” just before Kehoss pulls the trigger a third time, as the officer warns him that he is going to use the stun gun again, the video shows.
Neither Day nor officers were injured in the series of events.
Day was charged with robbery, attempted assault of a police officer, reckless driving and several other crimes. He was detained on bond Monday. Online court records show he is being represented by the public defender’s office, where no one answered the phone late Monday afternoon.
Naugatuck Police Chief C. Colin McAllister said Monday that state police were investigating Kehoss’s use of force, and the department is doing an internal affairs investigation.
“Early on in that process, we identified several concerns for this use of force,” McAllister said.
Kehoss did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment Monday. He is on paid leave pending the investigations.
McAllister said Kehoss has a disciplinary history with the department but did not elaborate. In 2021, Kehoss was found justified in shooting at a car three times when it hit his cruiser, which was pushed into him and knocked him down, as the driver tried to flee a stop. The bullets didn’t hit anyone.
Connecticut
6-year-old dies after stepfather beat him with a baseball bat in Bridgeport
A 6-year-old died after his stepfather beat him with a baseball bat in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
The child died Wednesday after being on life support from his injuries that left him “brain dead,” according to NBC affiliate, KTUU.
His stepfather, 38-year-old Abdulrahim Sulaiman, was charged with murder after being accused of taking a baseball bat and beating his wife, the 6-year-old boy, and his 4-year-old brother, according to NBC affiliate, KTUU.
The little boy’s 33-year-old mother and the 4-year-old brother survived but were treated at the hospital where they were upgraded from critical to stable condition.
The investigation started when officers responded to a home in Bridgeport at around 10 a.m. after reports of a man severely beating a woman and her children.
One of those calls was from the mother herself, who begged police for help and said Sulaiman was hitting her and her children with a bat, according to the affidavit.
The first officer at the scene saw Sulaiman walking toward him, with blood on his hands and arms, and muttering to himself, according to court records. And a witness pointed to the suspect and told the officer not to let Sulaiman get away.
A man who is accused of brutally beating a family member and her two young children with a baseball bat in Bridgeport on Wednesday morning appeared in court on Thursday and his bond has been set at $10 million.
Other officers found the mother and children in an apartment where they sought refuge.
The 6-year-old was unresponsive, according to the affidavit.
All three victims were initially taken to a local hospital, then the two children were flown to the pediatric emergency center at Yale New Haven Hospital.
When police spoke to the children’s mother, she told them that Sulaiman had been smoking angel dust and he had beaten her in the past.
She also told officers that he had threatened her with a gun and threatened to kill her and her children, according to the court records.
During their investigation, police watched video from the area and said it showed a baseball bat coming out an apartment window around 9:58 a.m., then Sulaiman jumping out a window and landing in a large trash bin.
Sulaiman’s next court date is set for Oct. 10. It will be held in Part A, which is a court for more severe crimes.
Sulaiman is being held on a $10,000,000 bond and has been placed on suicide watch.
Connecticut
Police ask for help to find woman missing from New Haven
New Haven police are looking for the public’s help to find a missing woman who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.
Denise Leary, 59, has been missing since Sept. 30.
She was last seen at her home in the area of Rock Creek Road, according to police.
Leary was wearing a black blazer jacket, black hat, dark blue jeans, black boots, and was carrying a multicolored tote bag.
Anyone with information is asked to call New Haven police at (203) 946-6316.
Connecticut
Picture Connecticut: Hartford Whalers Gear … In Carolina
CARY, NC — For the third straight week, Picture Connecticut is featuring a hurricane, but this time, it’s about an epic hockey logo, not an epic storm.
Yes, it’s the Hartford Whalers, in the South.
Earlier this week, as the National Hockey League was gearing up for the start of the 2024-25 season, a display of team apparel was being prominently displayed at a Target store, located just a few miles from where the Carolina Hurricanes play their home games.
And Whalers stuff was included.
Though it’s been nearly three decades since the Whalers left Hartford for Raleigh, the team apparel remains popular, even in North Carolina. The Hurricanes even run promotions involving the Whalers.
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