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8-Year Police Officer Killed In Crash, Second Injured In Crash Near CT Intersection 8-Year Police Officer Killed In Crash, Second Injured In Crash Near CT Intersection
8-Year Police Officer Killed In Crash, Second Injured In Crash Near CT Intersection One Connecticut police officer was killed and a second is in guarded condition after allegedly being hit by a speeding driver who ran a red light. The incident took place in Hartford around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 7, near Asylum Avenue and Cogswell Street, when a speeding driver ran a red light and slammed into a police cruiser, police said. An eight-year veteran of the Hartford Police Department, Officer Bobby Garten died from his injuries, police said.  Garten, age 34, was a second-generation police officer, officials said. His father was a detective with the department. Office…

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by Kathy Reakes
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CT Man Charged With Threatening To Kill State Police Sergeant CT Man Charged With Threatening To Kill State Police Sergeant
CT Man Charged With Threatening To Kill State Police Sergeant A Connecticut man has been arrested for allegedly threatening to kill an on-duty state police sergeant. The incident took place in Hartford on Monday, April 24 around 10:30 a.m. on Asylum Street. According to state police, an on-duty sergeant, working in a plain-clothes capacity with his State Police badge displayed, was entering his assigned vehicle which was parked on Asylum Street in Hartford.  As the sergeant began to enter his vehicle, a man with long hair, wearing eyeglasses, seated in the driver’s seat of a silver Honda Accord began to shout at the sergeant and asked the sergea…

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by Kathy Reakes
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Hartford Landlord Decapitated In Samurai Sword Attack Over Rent Hartford Landlord Decapitated In Samurai Sword Attack Over Rent
Hartford Landlord Decapitated In Samurai Sword Attack Over Rent A Hartford man is facing murder charges after he decapitated his landlord with a samurai sword over a rent dispute. Jerry David Thompson, 42, of Hartford was arrested Monday, July 27, the day after Victor King was found slashed to death in his Asylum Avenue home, The Hartford Courant is reporting.  Thompson had been renting a room from King. Thompson had allegedly threatened King with the sword on July 25, police said. The following day, friends who could not reach King alerted police, who then found the body. Thompson is being held on a $2 million bond, police said.

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by Kristin Palpini