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Ex-Staffer At CT Group Home Attacked Autistic Patient, Broke Their Nose: Police
Police in Connecticut are investigating a former group home employee who is accused of attacking an autistic patient so violently that the non-verbal woman needed to be hospitalized, authorities said.
Kendra A. Demudd, 28, of Hartford, was arrested and charged with assault on a person with an intellectual disability, reckless endangerment, and cruelty to persons, Wethersfield Police said. She was being held on a $50,000 bond.
Demudd, a former employee at HARC, a group home on Eastern Drive in Wethersfield, is accused of repeatedly assaulting the 28-year-old resident in the early…
CT Man, 56, Killed in I-91 Crash After Rear-Ending Trailer: Police
A 56-year-old Connecticut man was killed in a crash on I-91 in New Haven County, authorities said.
William Risley, of Watertown, died on Monday, Nov. 11, after he crashed into the back of a tractor-trailer truck on the interstate around 2 p.m., Connecticut State Police said.
According to the police report, Risley and the other vehicle were both in the center lane and had just passed exit 15 in Wallingford when the crash happened.
Paramedics rushed Risley to Midstate Hospital in Meriden, where he later died of his injuries.
The other driver, a 53-year-old man from S…
