Nice piece from Frank Juliano, CT Post:
A neighbor of the man who was fatally stabbed during a home invasion Sunday night said the victim died in his arms as the man’s girlfriend stood in the driveway holding their baby and screaming.
The neighbor said he had called 911 when he’d heard the screams, grabbed a coat and ran outside.“She was screaming, ‘They got my man, they got my man,'” said the witness, Aran Campbell. “He was in the back of the multi-family house, with duct tape still on his ankles. What must have happened is they had him restrained, then he got loose and fought them, and he was stabbed.”
The homicide was Bridgeport’s 14th this year.
Full story here.
From police spokesman Kevin Coughlin:
Today, the Bridgeport Police Department released the identity of the victim of Sunday night’s stabbing related homicide.
The victim has been identified as Jayson Rosado (DOB 09/28/87).
For more information on the homicide see below:
On October 18 at 11:05 p.m., police officers responded to calls regarding an assault with a firearm on Goldenrod Ave. near the corner of Madison Ave.Upon arrival at the scene, police officers found a 28-year-old male suffering from multiple stab wounds to the chest, side, and stomach.
The victim was immediately transported to St. Vincent’s Hospital by ambulance.
Regarding the incident that resulted in the victim being stabbed, witnesses report that four masked men — some displaying a firearm — entered the victim’s home.
The four suspects ransacked the victim’s house, and detectives are investigating what — if anything — was taken.
Detectives believe the victim was targeted, and that this incident was likely not a random act.
Shortly after arriving at St. Vincent’s Hospital, the victim was pronounced dead, and the incident was confirmed as a homicide.
Police officers and detectives are actively investigating the incident.
This incident brings the total number of homicides in Bridgeport since Jan. 1, 2015 to 14.
Anyone with information regarding this incident should contact Detective Robert Winkler at (203) 581-5224.
Lyons said, “We’re looking into free CPR training for residents, so they can help each other when they’re needed.”
This may be the saddest thing I’ve read in a long time, a city whose crime problems are so out of control now, a councilwoman wants the city to train all its citizens on how to give CPR to help each other if we need it??? What’s the next step, arming the rest of the citizens with firearms to protect themselves??? Or maybe handing out bulletproof vests at the tax office, once you pay your taxes, the city gives you a vest.
What we need here is federal help to supplement our severely depleted police dept (a parting gift from Finch btw). Basically councilwoman Lyons is throwing up the white flag, saying we can’t control the crime, so let’s all be prepared to help each other when it does happen. I don’t care who becomes mayor, if we as a city can’t control the crime, no one, developers, or private citizens will want to invest or live here.
Harvey Weintraub, how does one control the crime of a home invasion in an otherwise quiet and safe neighborhood? More cops? No. Shit happens. Now going after councilwoman Michelle Lyons for suggesting educating residents to help in the event of an emergency? You have an intelligent response? Lifesaving education is money well spent. Whether it is a home invasion or terrorist attack. It is not because I consider Michelle Lyons a friend or a hardworking councilwoman. I am commenting simply because there is no solution to this situation. I commend Michelle Lyons for her thoughtful suggestion. Mr. Weintraub, there are crimes we cannot control. We can have an army of Bridgeport’s finest, but for a home invasion? Domestic violence, crimes of passion? These are out of our control. Offering classes at the North End library by volunteers is not such a bad idea. Michelle at least has tried to offer some idea on how to remedy a situation. It is not as though she was showing up with Joe Ganim for a number of photo opportunities. This has nothing to do with the number of police officers, Mayor Finch or the neighborhood. This was a random act. We don’t need a quote from Ganim or any other candidate. This is just a sad situation. If you know Michelle Lyons, she doesn’t hang out a white flag. She as well as AmyMarie Paniccia are hardworking councilwomen. Women of substance. Like Mary-Jane Foster, vote row G.
Actually, home invasions go down when overall crime goes down. I only comment on this because I think it is a harsh stance to say, “shit happens.” I would not suggest knocking on the door of the home with that as an opening line, or nailing it to Mr. Weintraub’s forehead. Good night and say a prayer or a hopeful thought for Bridgeport. Sadly, I looked at the homicide number at 14 and immediately remembered when it was in the 60s a year or something. Also sad to see it as a statistic, it is lives.
“Shit happens,” maybe we should make that our city’s slogan, we can put that on billboards and bumper stickers, etc. “Bridgeport, where ‘shit happens’.” Maybe the city can also hand out night-vision goggles at the tax office, you know, like park stickers.
Vote for Mary-Jane! Because “Shit Happens.”
Jim Fox, no. Vote Joe Ganim because even murderers and people who do home invasions deserve a second chance. Everyone deserves a second chance, not just well-educated lawyers from very wealthy backgrounds who do not come from single-parent households who are not minorities and have betrayed the office they are seeking and lied under oath. Yes, Mary-Jane Foster because life happens but an honest woman beats a convicted felon any day of the week. Imagine the lawlessness if what’s-his-name were elected. Imagine the headlines. “What Did You Expect,” a real role model for the people of Bridgeport.
And voting for Ganim would have prevented all these killings.
I disagree. At least for domestic violence, there is a lot that could be done. I used to run DV groups. There is a lot that could be done by helping people to recognize early warning signs of violence (verbal, emotional) before it escalates into something more physical. There is a lot that could be done regarding communication, regulating emotions, handling anger, recognizing anger, etc. Now this is not the same as saying it is the city’s responsibility to do this, that is a separate question. All I am saying is, at least for domestic violence, there are definitely things that can be done to intervene and prevent it from escalating.
Shit happens? What kind of an asshole are you? A couple of thugs went into a man’s home and stabbed him to death. Life is not cheap, Steven. One murder diminishes us all.
Jeb Bush, on the campaign trail, said “Stuff happens” after the shooting in Oregon. Are you running for president as well?
This is not the first armed invasion in the North End. Tthere was one on Bretton St. last May or June, where luckily no one died.
Learning CPR to save lives is a noble idea. Unfortunately, citizens learning CPR will do nothing to stop this wave of violence.
Name one neighborhood Finch would move his family into in 2015 that he wouldn’t in 2007. That is why he is in the BRBC soup line along with Nunn and Wood. Stay the Kooris, MJF! May you and your “co-pirate” Stafstrom make Bridgeport great again.
Downtown.
Only place.
Lennie, do you know the street address?
I’ll check. Police have described the location as on Golden Rod at the corner of Madison.
Rather than shoot from the hip, I did some research.
2384 Madison Avenue is owned by Hall-Brooke Foundation, which Vision Appraisal lists at 2979 Main Street, which is the strip mall with CVS Pharmacy.
The Secretary of the State’s office has it registered as Hall-Brook Foundation Behavioral Health Services with a Westport address.
They purchased the two-family house in 1995. I protested the sale to Hall-Brooke in a zoning hearing because it allowed it to be used as a halfway house for people being treated for substance abuse.
Is it still being used for this purpose? Twenty years ago I expressed concern about who would be living in the house and their lifestyle. I did not feel the hard-working residents of this neighborhood should be forced to pay taxes and have the value of their homes impacted by a halfway house for people with drug abuse problems.
It took 20 years and many of those residing in the neighborhood in 1995 are gone.
Did the CT Post staff writer or our elected officials do some research about the circumstances of whom the victim was and what the house is used for? Apparently not.
Tom, really. The CT Post checks facts and information, Come On!
This year is like a 1991 crime redux–“déjà vu all over again.” I recall a drug-related murder on Goldenrod Avenue in 1991, it could have been directly across the street from this horrendous crime.
This is horrible. People are traumatized. Let’s not forget the near-fatal robbery/home invasion in Lake Forest in June. Still no suspects.
Bridgeport has been forgotten and neglected for too long. It’s time for new state and federal representation and leadership. If all Himes and Company have to offer are assurances that Steal Point will continue “on course” and the Crescent Street “Stamford Workforce Housing Project” will continue, then it is time for him to go (along with the rest of the “Greenwich Gang”).
Bridgeport needs real development, tens of thousands of living-wage jobs and a rebuilt tax-base, not more oppressive BS from Hartford, STAMFORD/GREENWICH and Washington.
When the only economically viable option for young people is drug dealing (to a local population that stays “high” to deal with the hopelessness of life in Bridgeport), then we’re going to have horrendous crimes in our “better” neighborhoods, and a terrorized populace that wants to be anyplace but here. 1991 all over again. BRING BACK JOE GANIM!
Jeff, everything you say sounds reasonable until you say Bring back Joe Ganim. That is speculation at its finest. No one knows what will happen if Ganim is in town hall. How about if you state a case for Ganim with some points on how it would be implemented? Because the last sentence is a non-sequitur argument otherwise. I think with a brief explanation, even people without a three-page introduction to logical fallacies would understand it. Does not follow.
How will Joe Ganim bring back jobs without the help of “Hartford, STAMFORD/GREENWICH and Washington”? Or even the neighbors in Fairfield and Stratford and etc., who might be too perplexed to come back for a hot dog. People do not have Bridgeport nostalgia and yes, we need them more than Ganim.
I hear a lot about “living-wage” jobs! It seems to be about $15 an hour. I know people who work at Bridgeport hospital as a sterile tech, they make about $15 an hour. A sterile tech cleans and sterilizes operating room instruments. If done poorly, it can KILL someone. Flipping a burger wrong only produces a bad burger! If a burger flipper and a hospital worker who sterilizes operating room instruments, both make the SAME money, why would anybody in their right mind take on the RESPONSIBILITY of doing an important and DANGEROUS job as a sterile tech now? Now they want more money and the surgical techs want more money and the RNs want more money etc. Burger flipper is NOT a LIFE LONG profession. It is an ENTRY LEVEL job, a springboard to better jobs. The problem is many of the people in America today who have ENTRY LEVEL jobs are too IGNORANT to get better-paying jobs because they went to INNER CITY SCHOOLS like BRIDGEPORT!!!
Jeff,
You are talking out of your ass again. This is not 1991 all over again. We are still trending 60% below 1991.
So quit the scare tactics and if there is a problem why don’t you talk to Joe’s man Chuck Paris?
Every time you post something, it contains lies, mistruths and scare tactics.
I had always respected you up until this campaign but now I am losing every bit of respect I ever had for you.
Don’t fret Bpt, we now have a Starbucks! McCarthy last year, “The world is taking notice of Bpt now because Starbucks has decided to build here.” You can’t make this shit up.
Finch/Wood/Nunn/Kooris trashed the North End. The concentration of sex offenders there is almost as bad as it is in City Hall!
*** Was this random or were they looking for someone or something specific in the home: Money, jewels, drugs, weapons, etc.??? Holidays are near and more and more things like this can happen if people in their neighborhoods don’t know each other or look out for each other nowadays. Know your surroundings, your neighborhood and neighbors and pay attention to what’s going on! *** DON’T WALK AROUND WITH BLINDERS ALL YOUR LIFE; WAKE UP! ***