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NORWALK, Conn. – A Norwalk man accused of shooting his sister's boyfriend Thursday at Roodner Court was arrested by Norwalk police less than 24 hours after the shooting.
Terry Peterson, 20, was apprehended at about 1 p.m. Friday at the Bridgeport train station with the help of the U.S. Marshals Violent Fugitive Task Force, Lt. Praveen John said in a statement. The detective bureau had developed information that Peterson fled to Bridgeport after the shooting.
The shooting happened at about 5:55 p.m. Thursday. A 30-year-old man was shot in the upper torso and taken to Norwalk Hospital with serious injuries, police said. Officers found him lying in a hallway on the first floor of Building 12.
Detective Ryan Evarts was assisted by Detectives Louie Giannatasio and David Orr in obtaining an arrest warrant in less than six hours for Peterson, charging him with first-degree assault, a Class B felony, and carrying a pistol without a permit, John said. They also got a search warrant for his residence. It has been executed, and additional corroborating evidence was found, John said.
Peterson was being held on $250,000 bond. His court date is Sept. 10.
Comments (55)
I SEEM TO BE OFF MY MEDS ONCE AGAIN
It seem our resident troll is now posting as Awon Apooponyou. The moron has just open his account today and has already trolled 12 of my posts with his usual lies , spam,and not 1 accurate fact. Are these trolls so fearful of my posts that they waste a Saturday morning reviewing weeks of My posts? I guess I should consider this a compliment..Shame that the troll has no life.
HAHA FUNNY
@Old Timer
Take a look at the statistics. There are 89 people in the Norwalk PD, out of a total force of 189, who make $100,000/year or more in salary alone. That's about half the force! Here's the source, go ahead and check my math:
http://cdn.dailyvoice.com/sites/default/files/top_salary_2011-1.pdf
By any objective measure, $100,000 or more is enough money to live in the best parts of Norwalk. And if that's not good enough, a second wage earner in the family would allow that same family to afford private schools. That's not an opinion, it's a simple fact.
@Ken P
I agree with you and others who have said that City employees should live in the City. However I would make this a requirement for all new hires, rather than insist that everyone living out of town pick up and move, because such a requirement could lead to significant turnover and the loss of a lot of experienced employees.
How much of that is overtime?
Thats not too bad, they put their lives at risk to protect us every day. $100,000 is not that much when you have to deal with some many "colorful characters" they deal with every day.
@Pony Tail Steve
Thanks for your thoughtful comment. I wasn't suggesting that they're overpaid, I was just responding to Old Timer's earlier comment which implied that Police Officers aren't currently paid enough to live in Norwalk. By any objective measure that's not true.
I do appreciate all the work that the Norwalk PD do to protect us, but I also think that next time the PD contract is up for renewal there should be at least two years without raises until Norwalk's budget stabilizes with no tax hike, and recent service cuts are restored. The same goes for all other municipal employees.
I agree. Although I feel they are entitled to every penny they make, at some point we have to realize that the economy is what it is, and they certainly get enough over time opportunities to make up for a lack of pay raise.
ffctguitarr as in Robtard
We could careless that you agree as you don't live in Norwalk but in fact live in the Port Chester ghetto.
I think it might help to require that officers live here, though I doubt the union would go for it. If some opted to quit because they didnt want their families living here that would be ok. I think it would certainly help ensure that officers were working here because they cared about the community rather than because its a great career opportunity. But I'd go one further & require it of ALL city employees, if its good for the PD its good all around, put Norwalkers to work for Norwalk.
I'm not sure how wise a requirement that all City employees live in Norwalk. Personally, I saw someone who until recently was a City employee and in the course of our farewell conversation I said, "So, what's your next plan?" She looked at me and said with great conviction, "I'm going home." It was almost identical in words and depth of feeling to what another person who was leaving Norwalk told me four years ago.
In both cases, "home" was out of state and their job requirements had relocated them here. But for one reason or another, Norwalk never became their home. So when their jobs dried up, they left Norwalk without a backward glance.
I've known "Army brats" and people who have worked for companies that have moved them all over the States as part of their job requirements. The one commonality that both groups have is that they never quite become part of the community because they didn't choose to live in that community, they were transferred there by their employment.
While I have always been an advocate of living in the community where you work, it's also important that people have the right to choose where they live, whether it be in Norwalk or one of the other municipalities around here.
And finally, for those who are married with children and living in another town where their spouse works, is the requirement to live in Norwalk going to eliminate them from the potential employment pool?
Kudos to Detectives Giannattasio, Evarts and Orr, and Detective Sergeant Roncinske along with Detective Blake. Great work!
Interesting how the other 170 officers are not thanked and were not in the picture.
The complainers will never see the light,we never drank the kool aid.
Lets keep it civil and ask why the Norwalk police dept doesn't release the over the weekend data to show the public the work load the dept is faced with.
What kind of story will be given about the kids we all saw this weekend with baseball bats in the Webster lot?
The amount of crime this weekend should be told to the taxpayers and give us the opt to ask for more police on the street.
Given what was seen this weekend and reported on Topix maybe its time to ask do we have enough officers on each shift?
There was once an officer complaining about the lack of manpower on some shifts but now that he is a Sargent that problem seems to have gone away.
Has the grant money ran out yet? Woodward ave still needs the protection.
Police departments, including Norwalk, do not issue press releases as nobody is assigned to that job. Reporters go to police stations and read the log. Anything they find particularly interesting, they ask about. If there is a spokesman available, they get more details. Frequently, the spokesman for the time the reporters are at the station is not available because he/she is out on the street supervising an investigation. Bigger departments always have somebody available to talk to reporters, but departments the size of ours do not. You would probably be astonished at how small a number is on duty right now and they are usually pretty busy.
Nobody is trying to keep secrets, it is just the reporters show up and don't wait around if nobody is immediately available to answer questions.
Another ghetto scum off the street. At the end of the day, that's all that really matters.
Kudos to the US Marshals who made the arrest.
yep NPD did a great job,think if you knew the history of Terry one would of asked why was he walking the streets.Fugitive task forces are used more often than not when your susupect is known in the law enforcment community.Shooting at a HUD project can involve a lot of outside help maybe used now more than before under the old want to be Mayor Harry Houdini,he was never found when the city needed him.(He would be a great Mayor suppose he fits some of the qualifications)
outstanding coordination ?Its hard not to have some results when your victims do most of the work to catch the suspects,voilent attacks where victims knew the attacker is hard not to solve.The last two vicious attacks seem very personal.
Lets bear in mind Bridgeport is doing so much to get guns off the street and has task forces based there response from them thank God is quick.
There will be no crime as the fest nears,Norwalk is a safe well kept city where crime takes a back seat to politics.Norwalk use to have a good balance but now most of the Democrats have been convinced it was only an uptick in crime that was taken care of by the outstanding efforts of Tom and good ole boy Harry.
Why doesn't Norwalk Police not publish police arrests and detailed crime complaints? stolen cars,break ins and bar closing crimes in the city?
@sononeknows
So when the Norwalk PD don't arrest someone within 24 hours of a violent crime, you complain. When they DO arrest someone, and people give them a little credit, you complain about that too. It's starting to sound like all you want to do is complain, and misuse punctuation.
I concur with you Iwitherspoon. The complainers will continue, no matter what the facts are. It's a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't. The Norwalk Police Department is an excellent police department. The fact that it can work hand in hand with the state and federal law enforcement officers to arrest criminals is a credit to Chief Kulhawik and former Chief Rilling. The complainers will never see the light.
Norwalkerloney
Your post is very funny
Completely inaccurate but funny
Spooner
Unfortunately the NPD did not arrest anyone
Here is what the article says
"Terry Peterson, 20, was apprehended at about 1 p.m. Friday at the Bridgeport train station with the help of the U.S. Marshals Violent Fugitive Task Force, Lt. Praveen John said in a statement. "
Are you saying that the Norwalk Voice is incorrect???
Yes, Tim. Sorry. But you are wrong again.
The US Marshalls Task Force is made up of officers/detectives from several cities. And the member of the US Marshalls Task Force who found the guy is an NPD Detective.
Man, proving you wrong is easy...
Tim
With the help of is not the same as by.
None of us know who first grabbed him, but the story is clear, the marshals were assisting another agency, and it was Norwalk cops who made the arrest.
Do you think the U.S. Marshals were acting on their own? They work with the Norwalk Police day in, day out. Fighting crime is a team effort. The NPD can do without your snide, ignorant comments.
Norwalkloney
I am just stating the facts you on the other hand are spinning the facts.. Are you a cop or a family member of a cop. I know you will say no but your posts show otherwise.
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@EVERYONE
ATTENTION
We can all just ignore ffctguitar as he is the stalker troll that posts on Topix with a hijacked unregistered version of my user name Niikk (in black) on topix in addition to his own user name of ffctguitar. He is a sicko at best who has staked me and many many others from site to site for years until he gets banned. It seems he has started staking some on this site..I would suggest you take a look at his posts on the Topix site if your stomach can handle it.
@Diane C2
I agree - great job by all involved, especially our own Norwalk PD, who just solved two violent crimes the very same week they occurred.
@M. Murray
My understanding is that it's standard practice everywhere in the country to involve US Marshals when the local department has intelligence that the perpetrator has fled to another town.
I agree - great job especially by the US Marshall who made the arrest as they have made many many others that the NPD dropped the ball on..
There are several schools of thought on cops living where they work. There are certainly advantages, and I think it would be an improvement. It used to be a requirement, but the City dropped it rather than pay what it cost to live in Norwalk, years ago.
People were a lot more helpful with information when they knew the cop they were talking to. I think cops were better motivated, too. I wonder if they could legally require local residence again.
Old Timer
100 percent correct as the officer was part of the community.
"People were a lot more helpful with information when they knew the cop they were talking to. I think cops were better motivated".
Old Timer
Sure it is legal an example would be the NYPD you must live in the 5 boughs. I realize that Is NY but labor law is pretty much the same state to state. Employers have the right to have pretty much any requirement they want as a condition of employment as long as it does not involve discrimination.
@Old Timer
Any idea what percentage of Norwalk PD officers live in Norwalk now?
Considering the salaries that have been publicized, even for rookies, it appears to me that our Police Officers are currently making enough to live in Norwalk. They may not be able to buy a giant home with a huge yard like they could get if they chose to live out in the middle of nowhere, far from the water with little by way of amenities. But the vast majority of Norwalkers don't have giant homes with large yards either.
Iwitherspon
You are entitled to your opinion about how much a cop makes, and what size yard is appropriate for his/her family, but it is quite possible that a lot of cops would not agree. You forget the average cop knows a lot more about neighborhoods in the city and about problems in the schools than most of us, and is not much influenced by your opinion.
Cops generally do not want their families exposed to a lot of what they see regularly and look for the safest neighborhoods with the best schools at a price they can afford.
No, I have no idea what percentage lives outside Norwalk, and cop's addresses are protected information, not subject to FOI inquiry.
Hey Tim. You might want do a little research on how federal agencies track fugitives. It might help you to learn what technology is available that is only available to federal agencies and prohibited from use by local authorities. That may explain why local police depts use federal law enforcement more than they did 20 years ago. Local depts get their warrants and then coordinate with federal agencies to locate the individuals
Tim T is clueless, he just posts for attention and has had run ins with NPD which is why he hates them.
Ignore him like everyone else does
The guy was on the first train out of state thank god the feds busted him as Norwalk had lost him.
The first train out of state would have been headed in the OTHER direction - towards New York, not Bridgeport. New York has Grand Central and Penn Station, not to mention tons of other ways to not be found. Bridgeport has....the ferry to Long Island?
Paige
Maybe he was going to RI..The beaches are good this time of year..
Do you have some inside information?
Nice try. I believe you were the one that mentioned he was headed out of state. It sounded like you were the one with inside information.
I merely pointed out that we are slightly less than 50 miles from NY City (an hour by train) which is in another state while Rhode Island and Mass. are much further away if one is taking the train. An hour on the train from Norwalk will only get someone to New Haven.
HAHA Paige...You are funny you crazy old troll...
What time are we having the picnic Monday?
Good job. Why does the mayor never speak?
Have you heard the mayor speak???If you did you would know why???LOL
You know what Norwalk needs? A good serial killer who lives in good and will cleanup some scum.
Haha... Can't wait for new season of dexter
Thank you once AGAIN U.S. Marshals Violent Fugitive Task Force for doing the job of the NPD ..Hey anyone at the U.S. Marshals Violent Fugitive Task Force want a job in Norwalk as we sure could use some professional such as you guys to help with the Norwalk out of control crime epidemic This just goes to prove what I and many many in Norwalk have been saying that the mayor and police chief need to call in outside agencies for HELP. Amazing how quickly we get results when outside agencies get involved.
Tim T you are a real moron. I imagine you were once arrested by NPD for some really embarrassing crime. Were you wearing women's panties lurking outside an old age home? Maybe you were having relations with your dog... Whatever happened it must've been bad because your deep disdain for the NPD is obvious in your comments. You even go as far as manipulating the facts in the article in order to promote your distasteful view. I'd seek help if I were you, or take an ambien or twenty. Try to relax, buddy. It happened. Now move forward in peace and get past it. Life is good.
Tim T posted on another site his prius got towed several times by the NPD, so he hates the police This guy "Tim" is a Troll, if you notice he is trying to get attention and really has nothing to say. He just wants people to reply to his posts, and when they do not he replies to them using another username LOL!
Funny How ffctguitard seems to obsessed with what others post on other sites...SOUNDS LIKE A TROLL TO ME.
With a user name like
John Rambo
You must be referring to yourself..Thank for the info
I remember when the cop on the beat knew everyone. I also remember when the cops in general, knew everyone ( I would arrive home and my Dad had all the info about my adventures). The difference in my opinion, is that my Dad delivered justice...........
No courts, no PC correct folks, etc.
Where are the adults in the neighborhood ? Someone needs to identify the "good babies" and have them removed. They are not helping the regular folks no matter their color..........
One of the main issue is we no longer have a cop on he beat that was also a neighbor. What we have today is a bunch of children at the NPD who do not get out of the air conditioned car. They also only come to Norwalk to play and collect a paycheck and then go back too the community where they live..What we need to do is have a mandatory must be a Norwalk resident regulation for ALL city employees. This is the only way they can have a vested interest in Norwalk