Posted on 08/23/2023 9:48:33 AM PDT by Red Badger
Accused killer refused public defender at arraignment
A Connecticut man decapitated his landlord with a sword during a dispute over unpaid rent, authorities said.
Hartford police responded to a 911 call the morning of July 25 from landlord Victor King, who said his roommate, Jerry Thompson, had been waving a Samurai sword at him, according to the Hartford Courant.
The pair was arguing about Thompson’s overdue rent, with King telling Thompson he had to move out if he couldn't pay.
The following morning, police received calls from King’s friends who were concerned for his safety after they couldn't reach him.
Officers forced their way into King’s home later that afternoon and found his body slashed and covered in bedding, with blood everywhere.
A medical examiner’s report observed injuries consistent with a large, edged weapon, noting “lacerations to the … right arm, upper chest and across the neck causing decapitation,” KTLA 5 reported.
“It was pretty brutal,” King’s cousin, Jim Banks, told the Courant. “I can’t imagine him doing anything that would provoke somebody. That just wasn’t in his personality.”
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The guy looks like most of the City Council—how did they figure out who he was...
Lol.
“...police do not seem to have responded to that call.”
This is what happens when the police are defunded and the cops don’t have enough to respond. The administrators even admit it when they raped the budget:
“Cutting nearly a quarter of the police budget overnight would not have been responsible, and it also would not have been transformative – it would have just left us with a hundred fewer officers, no community service officers, no walk beats, and unacceptable response times,” Bronin said in a statement.”
https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/hartford-council-votes-to-reallocate-police-budget/2286354/#:~:text=The%20Hartford%20City%20Council%20has,on%20the%20city‘s%202021%20budget.
wy69
SPJNK.
color me shocked.
and PS......do a thorough backround check on anybody who is going to share your humble abode.
“roommate” tells me they live in the same house.
Ugh.
I just sent the article to a buddy who owns three rental properties.
Never argue with a man with a sword.
Was the landlord white?
Many landlords in NYC are protected classes: Orthodox Jews, Indians, Dominicans, Pakistanis, Afro-Caribbean. The same might be true for Hartford.
There are also corporate landlords that own dozens, or even hundreds, of buildings. But you can't kill a corporate landlord; only its property managers.
Unless you are holding a rifle.
Are they teaching this stuff in black schools? It seems to be very common with our melanated friends.
They don’t have to.................
Puts me in mind of an episode of Midsomer Murders.. After a priest hears the confession of a terminal parishioner, he beheads the guy because the person he confessed to killing was his illegitimate child.
Hartford is a complete crap hole.
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Of course. Just another NE cesspool of Democrat anti-American Communists!
Well who hasn’t lost their head in a heated argument?
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SovCiv/Moor is just the latest version of “Income taxes aren’t legal”. People who make you roll your eyes.
Like that Headless body found in Topless Bar.
Have fun with your dork head status while you rot in prison
I live in northern CT—and I had the necessary skills and the funds to become a landlord.
I refused to become one, however—imho the risks outweighed the rewards.
That said—I never considered getting beheaded as one of the risks.
;-)
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