Guilford Man Sentenced to 24 Years, Suspended After 12
GUILFORD, CT — A 42-year-old Guilford man was sentenced Monday, Sept. 28, to a 24-year prison term, suspended after he serves 12, followed by five years of probation, for firing into two occupied homes. John P. Doyle Jr., the state’s attorney for the New Haven Judicial District, announced the sentence.
Judge David L. Zagaja imposed the sentence after a New Haven Superior Court jury found the man guilty June 18. The homes belonged to two former Guilford High School classmates of his, and the shootings occurred Dec. 21, 2022, and Oct. 24, 2023.
Jury Convicted the Guilford Man on Five Counts
The jury convicted him of five charges, according to the Connecticut Division of Criminal Justice: two counts each of attempted first-degree assault and first-degree criminal mischief, plus criminal possession of a revolver on school grounds.
According to the state’s account of the trial evidence, eight rounds from a Glock 17 9 mm handgun were fired into the first occupied home on the night of Dec. 21, 2022. Ten months later, on Oct. 24, 2023, four rounds from the same gun struck the second.
Police recovered the handgun and ammunition at the man’s home, the state said, and found a list of female names there, one of them the name of a victim’s daughter. Ballistics, DNA and an analysis of historical cell-site records tied him to both shootings, prosecutors said.