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Good Samaritan Struck, Killed Assisting Others On I-84
State police are asking the public for help after a man, who was assisting people following a crash, was hit and killed in Connecticut.
Andy Azab, of Oakville, an enclave of Watertown in Litchfield County, was hit by a Nissan Altima while attempting to help at another crash scene on I-84 in Hartford County, in Southington.
State police said the accident happened around 6:30 p.m., on Tuesday, July 6 near the Exit 28 on-ramp, when Azab, age 62, was standing in the travel portion of the highway.
Azab was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead, state police said.
No one else was …
Man Faces New Charges In Woman's Death On Candlewood Lake
Charges were recently upgraded against an area man whose friend died after being struck by the propeller of his boat last year on Candlewood Lake.
Gary Morrone, 66, of Watertown, who was originally charged with reckless operation of a vessel, failure to help a collision victim, and failure to immediately notify law enforcement of injury for the Nov. 19, 2018 incident, has also been charged with criminally negligent homicide and reckless boating.
Wanda Tirado, 38, of Waterbury, was killed while the pair were out boating in Morrone's boat on the lake in New Fairfield. While sw…
Pace Students Say 'Never Again' To School Gun Violence, Lax Legislators
"I refuse to be a target," more than 100 Pace University students chanted on Wednesday, Feb. 28.
"I refuse to be scared," they shouted.
"I refuse to be silent," they said in unison.
Their pledge closed out a 17-minute tribute to the 17 victims of Parkland, Fla.'s high school shooting on Feb. 14, just two weeks ago and still very fresh on the minds of the college students on Pace's Pleasantville campus.
Lindita Kulla, a sophomore from Watertown, CT, said she visited the site of the Newtown elementary school shootings on her way back to college after the Presi…
