From Police Department Facebook page:
One week after a man was shot and killed outside of his car at the intersection of Park Avenue and Cottage Street, the Bridgeport Police Department has arrested a man for his murder.
Jorge Luis Oritz, 57, was taken into custody by the patrol division while walking on the East Side Sunday night. He ran from an officer but was quickly apprehended. Oritz had an active warrant for Murder and Criminal Possession of a Firearm. He did not have a gun on him when he was located. Detectives and officers had been searching for him for several days.
Ortiz was scheduled to be arraigned Monday morning in Bridgeport Superior court on Golden Hill Street. His bond was set at $2.5 million.
Nelson Manuel Batista, 48, of Bridgeport, was found lying on the street next to his car on Cottage Street suffering from a gunshot wound at around 9:00 a.m. on October 12th. He was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital, where he was later pronounced deceased.Police believe the shooting stemmed from a road rage incident.
Mr. Batista’s funeral is scheduled for tonight.
The Bridgeport Police Department will be holding a press conference regarding the arrest at 12:00 p.m. today.
He looked familiar and I couldn’t pin it down. Jorge aka Geo from Father Panik Village. I thought he was dead a long time ago.
He will plea and try to get the lowest sentence posible for what it’s worth. The way whe are heading, Joe Ganim and Chief Porter will set up a Gun, Knife and Stone buy-back program.
JG,
Perhaps you wish to run for office? Your empathy for a neighbor who dies from a knife blade and uncontrolled human anger, with a relative facing you on the video before her loved one’s funeral, and your only response is that you perhaps recognized the assailant and invented what someone else thought was humor by providing you a thumbs up. But you had no comment about your “neighbors”, the folks around you. Isn’t that the fatal disconnect with President Trump? He only cares for himself daily, untroubled about the role he has rigged himself and complains about “hoaxes” and “fake news” as polls report that support of his administration has gone into the toilet, so to speak! As I keep reminding folks who still bother to read me, time will tell.
What are you talking about? What neighbor? What knife? A firearm was used here. A firearm the is still out there somewhere. Let’s talk about that, what has the Chief or Mayor said about the ‘100% INCREASE IN HOMICIDES’ so far? Joe Ganim and Thief Roderick Porter don’t give 2 fucks about a dead Hispanic. The reason Joe and the Chief showed “Empathy” is precisely because Joe Ganim is running for officer. Go on and keep burying your nose
in the Mayor’s and Police Chief’s ass. I’M NOT RUNNING FOR OFFICE. I’M STILL WAITING FOR ANYONE TO CHALLENGE ME AS OIB SHERIFF.
LENNIE GRIMALDI, tell JML who is the OIB Sheriff please.
Speedy you’re the sheriff and JML the general.
Lennie,
You are my neighbor once again as a Bridgeport resident and provider of a blog service open to me.
JG is ignoring the fact that he is a neighbor because he is wanting in empathy, profoundly. Is Joe Ganim running for office? Is that why he will not sit for a conversation about municipal governance where he has the authority to empower or abuse the citizenry.
I think Joel is still yelling at you to attend to his need to be recognized by you as OIB Sheriff. What would those qualificationd include? A hateful or insulting approach to disagreement? Or a willingness to work for nothing, other than celebrity? Sheriffs were originally doomed in the State from the 1960s when Governor Ribicoff eliminated county government. City sheriffs remained in Bridgeport until the Charter Revies put a final stop to them in print and the voters approved.
Does angry Sheriff Joel carry a weapon? Better that he remain calm and find a genuine sense of humor, as well as the issues that affect his neighbors as citizens in Bridgeport. Time will tell.
JML, Joe Ganim will not sit with you bucause you have an audiences of two people– your wife and Robert Teixera. If you where News 12 such as the example in this homicide, he’d cancel very important meetings. If news 12 calls to ask question about the ‘100 % increase in Homicides’… I should prank his Narcissist ass by passing myself as a New York Post reporter.
Here’s something few people know about Jorge Luis Ortiz. Notice the size of his head, pale look? He has cáncer and knows he doesn’t have much time left. This man could have gone on a rampage as he had nothing/little to lose.