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Police: 26-year-old man killed in Waterbury shooting

A 26-year-old man was killed in a shooting early Sunday morning in Waterbury, police said.
Officers responded to reports of shots fired about 5 a.m. and found an empty vehicle in the road and evidence of a shooting near Main Street and Division Street, according to the Waterbury Police Department.
Investigators learned that a 26-year-old man had been taken to Saint Mary’s Hospital with a gunshot wound. He was later pronounced dead at the hospital, police said.
The Waterbury police major crimes detectives were investigating the shooting. Anyone with information was asked to contact the department’s detective bureau at 203-574-6941 or the crime stoppers anonymous tip line at 203-755-1234.

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Connecticut boy, 10, sends emotional message to father’s Halloween killer during sentencing: ‘Taken from me too early’

A 10-year-old Connecticut boy heart-wrenchingly revealed that he didn’t have enough time with his late father, who was stabbed to death before they could go trick-or-treating on Halloween five years earlier.
Fernando “Chino” Rivera’s son, “Niko,” bravely delivered the powerful victim statement before his father’s killer, Terrence Johnson, was sentenced to 38 years in prison on Tuesday.
“I didn’t get enough time (with dad)…My dad deserved to stay. My dad was taken from me too early,” Niko said in a video played in the Superior Court in Milford, according to the Harford Courant.
Niko had been waiting for his father to come home so that the pair could celebrate their Halloween together in 2020, but Rivera never returned.
The 35-year-old was at the corner of Elm Street and Washington Avenue in West Haven, Conn., when Johnson, then 18, stabbed him from behind.
Rivera, who was engaged to Niko’s mother Lindsee Baez, was seriously injured in the attack and died from a neck injury at Yale New Haven Hospital the next day, according to his obituary.
Niko, only being five, was told his father died of a “boo-boo.”
Johnson was arrested and charged with murder, according to court records viewed by The Post.
He fleshed out a plea deal with prosecutors to reduce his sentence to between 30 and 45 years, Baez told the outlet.
The boy recommended to the court that Johnson deserved to be booked in prison for a century, despite the killer getting under four decades.
“I wish he would go away and stay in jail for 100 years,” Niko said. “I want (dad) to know I miss him so much.”
Loved ones said Rivera’s greatest joy was “being a father and spending time with his son.”
Baez was hopeful her fiancé’s killer would spend the rest of his life in jail “in a perfect world,” but conceded to the sentencing being “a semblance of justice,” she told the court.
“You stole a life, you stole dreams, and you stole love, and no sentence can ever undo the damage you caused,” she furiously told Johnson.
“At the end of my day, my son doesn’t have a dad,” Baez said.
Rivera, a 6-foot, 350-pound man known for his tattoos, was remembered for his gentle soul, who became a stay-at-home dad after his son’s birth, affectionately being called “Papa Bear,” in the maternity ward, Baez said.
“He was truly my best friend,” she said, according to the outlet.
“We grew up together, from our teenage years into adulthood,” Baez recalled on her 17-year relationship with Rivera. “The road was bumpy along the way, but we never gave up on each other. We chose our family every single day, and that choice made him so happy.”
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Human remains found at construction site in Greenwich

Police are investigating after finding human remains at a construction site in Greenwich last week.
The police department said that during a normal workday at a construction site in northern Greenwich, workers found what appeared to be human remains after soil was disturbed by an excavator.
The remains were carefully collected from the scene, and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner took custody of the bones, police said.
Investigators said the remains appear to be of a considerable age.
Connecticut State Police is also assisting with the investigation.
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