The person, who police say was Ricky Allen Wilson Jr., 23, left the convenience store and was later seen in a van by field training officer. The field training officer recognized Wilson as being wanted on a previous warrant that involved unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. A passenger in Wilson’s vehicle was caught, but Wilson got away. Wilson was spotted in the afternoon by a sheriff’s deputy along Cameron Road and U.S. 301 and fled into a wooded area.
is charged with felony fleeing to elude arrest, driving with a revoked license, larceny of fuel, misdemeanor possession of stolen goods, driving with a fictitious or revoked registration plate, reckless driving to endanger and being the driver in a hit-and-run and failing to stop for property damage. He previously was wanted in an attempted break-in of a house. His total bail was set at $2,500.
Officer Robert V. Fumiatti
January 10, 2007 – New Haven, Connecticut,- Age 35
2002, Officer Robert Fumiatti, along with about 10 officers had just finished a drug raid in another section of New Haven when they drove up to Washington and West streets in an unmarked van. They spotted what they thought was a hand-to-hand drug deal and stopped the vehicle. Fumiatti was the first officer out. He was shot before he could draw his gun at 9:15 p.m. Arnold Bell, 36, shot Officer Fumiatti with a 38 caliber Colt Cobra revolver and then fled from police. Fumiatti’s heart stopped and was restarted in the ambulance on the way to the emergency room at Yale-New Haven Hospital and arrived there at 9:25 p.m. He was dead for 3 minutes and 43 seconds. The single bullet entered Fumiatti’s right cheek about level with the bottom of his ear and ricocheted downward off a molar, ripping through the esophagus and cracking his top vertebra in officer’s Fumiatti’s neck.
Nearly five years of appealing the federal decision, the Fumiatti family convinced the courts that Robert did ultimately die in the line of duty and his name was finally added to the National Law Enforcement Officer’s Memorial wall in Washington, D.C. in 2011.
On June 15, 2002, Michael Rice, 37, of Milford, was arrested in connection with the shooting He was accused of providing the .38-caliber gun used to wound Officer Robert Fumiatti during a drug raid who was later released on bond. The police earlier arrested Arnold Bell, 36, charging him with attempted murder and assault on a police officer. In February 2003, Gary Mills, 40, of New Haven, Connecticut, was indicted by a federal grand jury in February 2003 in connection with the possession of a .38 caliber Colt Cobra revolver. He pleaded guilty to being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm that had traveled in interstate commerce as evidence was about to begin in his jury trial in New Haven federal court. Documents filed with the Court, in December 2001, reveal that a crack-addicted individual gave Mills the .38 caliber revolver in connection with a drug transaction. Specifically, Mills took the gun and provided the addict with a quantity of crack cocaine. The record in the case reflects that Mills maintained possession of the weapon until February 2002, when he transferred the gun to Arnold Bell of New Haven. Several months later, on June 13, 2002, Bell shot New Haven police officer Robert Fumiatti in the face with the weapon. On June 14, 2002, Bell was found in a yard at 2:00 a.m. after a short manhunt and a judge set the bond for $ 5 million. The gun was recovered at the scene of the officer’s shooting. Court records reflect that, prior to December 2001, Mills had been convicted of numerous felony offenses. As a result of his prior record, Mills faces the enhanced sentencing penalties applicable under the federal Armed Career Criminal Act. At that time, Mills faces a mandatory minimum term of 15 years of imprisonment and a maximum term of life. On April 6, 2004
