"I heard three rounds of 9 or 10 gunshots each." Robyn Lauzon, who lives around the corner on Birch Road, said she was awoken by the gunfire. He said he heard a woman screaming, "you (expletive) killed them!" Rodriguez said he saw the first officers arrive and two of them go down. A little more than 30 seconds later, two more shots are heard.ĭanny Rodriguez, who lives nearby, said he was outside when the shooting started.
About 15 seconds later, more than 20 shots ring out, seemingly muffled or farther away. About a minute later, a single shot is heard.
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The initial series of shots included about 30 rounds, fired over the course of six to seven seconds, as heard in the video footage from a nearby apartment complex. We will get through this horrific event," Gould said. To the members of the Bristol Police Department, I mourn with you. The shooting happened at a home in the 300-block of Redstone Hill Road, said Connecticut State Police Sgt. Christine Jeltema, whose agency is investigating the deadly exchange of gunfire. Neither of the brothers have pending criminal cases or prior convictions listed on the state judicial website. Police also did not say what charges Nathan Brutcher faces. Police have not released a potential motive for the incident and have not said who shot the Brutcher brothers. "Preliminary information appears to point to the 911 call being a deliberate act to lure law enforcement to the scene," state police said in a statement. They said it appeared the shooting was planned. Police said the officers were responding to a 911 call about an apparent dispute between two brothers, who have been identified as Nicholas Brutcher, 35, and Nathan Brutcher, 32. Nicholas Brutcher was fatally shot at the scene, while his brother was wounded and taken to Saint Francis Hospital, state police said. Wednesday, Bristol Police Chief Brian Gould said. Bristol Police Officer Alec Iurato, 26, survived the shooting and was released from the hospital Thursday morning after undergoing surgery, state police said. Sgt. Dustin DeMonte, 35, and Officer Alex Hamzy, 34, were killed in the shooting, which happened around 10:30 p.m. State police say law enforcement may have been lured to a Redstone Hill Road home Wednesday night where two local officers were killed and another was wounded in an apparent ambush. Associated Press writers Susan Haigh in Hartford, Connecticut, and Karen Matthews in New York contributed to this report.By Christine Dempsey, Lisa Backus, Jesse Leavenworth, and Ben LambertīRISTOL, Conn. His name is Alec Iurato, not Alex Iarato. The story was previously updated to correct the spelling of the name of the wounded officer. 14, 2022, to correct the last time a police officer was fatally shot while on duty in Connecticut. A medical examiner said he died of a heart problem, but his name was added to a national memorial for fallen police officers after his family argued that his health problem was related to his healed gunshot wound. The last Connecticut law enforcement officer shot to death while on duty was Newington Officer Peter Lavery, who was killed while responding to a domestic violence call in 2004.Īdditionally, New Haven Officer Robert Fumiatti died in 2007, five years after being shot during a drug investigation. And in North Carolina on Thursday evening, a police officer was among five people killed in a shooting in a residential area. Two of those officers, one in Greenville and one Las Vegas, were killed. It followed shootings of police officers this week in Greenville, Mississippi Decatur, Illinois Philadelphia, Las Vegas and central Florida. The governor called the shooting “a senseless tragedy,” ordering flags to be lowered to half-staff in the officers’ honor. Iurato was released from a hospital Thursday morning.īristol, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) southwest of the state capital of Hartford, is home to about 60,000 people and to the sports network ESPN. Iurato, 26, joined the Bristol department in 2018 and has a bachelor’s degree in government, law and national security, the chief said. Scores of officers lined a street and followed a vehicle carrying Hamzy’s body from the shooting scene late Thursday morning. “The outpouring of love, support and prayers from so many is deeply appreciated,” Hamzy’s family said in a statement. Like Demonte, Hamzy was an advisor to a police cadet program. Hamzy, 34, had gotten many letters of commendation during his eight years on his hometown police force, the chief said.
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