Jeremy Middleton, 19, was charged and arraigned Friday on charges connected with the death of Shane Slinsky, 18, the Post said. He is also facing a number of charges in Norwalk and Stamford in unrelated cases.
Slinsky was shot twice in the head in broad daylight Aug. 27 in a parking lot on Wood Avenue Terrace in Bridgeport during what police said was a drug deal gone wrong.
Slinky’s mother said Middleton was a longtime friend of her son, the Post said.
Middleton was also arrested last month in Norwalk, the fourth and final suspect in a pair of robberies of Chinese food delivery drivers in January in that city.
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He was charged in a Jan. 9 robbery on Rolling Lane and a Jan. 14 shooting and wounding of a Chinese food delivery driver in Norwalk.
Middleton was also arrested in Stamford on arson charges, in a case involving the burning of a vehicle stolen from a food delivery driver in Bridgeport.
At the time of his death, police said Slinsky had struggled with marijuana use and was part of a teacher sex case in Stamford.
As a student at Stamford High School in 2014, Slinsky and an unidentified friend regularly smoked pot supplied by former English teacher Danielle Watkins, who is now in prison for having a sexual relationship with the friend.
In the months before he was shot to death, Slinsky received a $100,000 settlement from the city for the school administration’s failure to contact police immediately about the teacher's activities.
Before she was sentenced, Watkins also threatened Slinsky at a local Dunkin' Donuts, leading to a longer prison term.
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