The charge is merely an accusation and Raynor is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. The arrest is the result of an investigation by the Hartford Police and the Cold Case Unit in the Office of the Chief State's Attorney. Subsequent investigation determined that Baez was shot during a fight he was involved in near the house where Raynor lived. He was transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. Officers found the 25-year-old victim down on the street with bullet wounds to the head and shoulder. On May 10, 2002, Hartford police responded to 47 Center Street for a report of a person shot. JAMES RAYNOR was arrested in February 2019 and charged with Murder in the 2002 shooting death of Harry Baez in Hartford. The charges are merely accusations and Letman is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. The case will be prosecuted by the Cold Case Unit and the Hartford State’s Attorney's Office. The arrest is the result of an investigation by the Cold Case Unit in the Office of the Chief State’s Attorney and the Hartford Police Department. Subsequent investigation determined that an argument ensued between Letman and the victims just prior to the shooting. A third victim, Harold “Oink” Cook, age 39, survived a gunshot wound to his buttocks. Cameron Mounds, age 19, was found in the driveway of 98 Enfield Street where he was pronounced deceased. Ashley Spence, age 21, was transported to Saint Francis where she was pronounced dead. Officers found three victims had been shot. On June 21, 2016, Hartford police responded to 97 Enfield Street on report of a shot spotter activation and 911 calls reporting injured parties. The task force was assisted by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection Division of Scientific Services Forensic Science Laboratory, the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification, the Hampton Police Department in Virginia and the Bertie County Sheriff's Office in North Carolina.īRANDON LETMAN was arrested December 2019 and charged with two counts of Murder, Murder with Special Circumstances, Assault in the First Degree and Criminal Possession of a Firearm in the 2016 fatal shootings of Cameron Mounds and Ashley Spence in Hartford. The task force included members of the New Britain, Hartford, Wethersfield, Waterbury and East Hartford police departments, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Office of the Chief State's Attorney and the Office of the State's Attorney for the Judicial District of New Britain.
His arrest was the result of an investigation by the Greater New Britain Serial Murder Task Force, which was established to investigate the cases. Her remains were found in the same wooded area of New Britain where the other victims were buried.
She was last seen alive on July 25, 2003, in Wethersfield. At the time he was charged in those deaths, Howell was in prison for his conviction for Manslaughter in the First Degree for the homicide of Nilsa Arizmendi. The remains of the six victims were found buried in a wooded area behind a shopping center on Hartford Road in New Britain. Under Connecticut law, life in prison is defined as 60 years with a mandatory minimum penalty of 25 years on each count, resulting in a total effective sentence of 360 years, 150 years of which are mandatory. Howell is serving six sentences of life in prison. He also was charged in the deaths of Marilyn Gonzalez, born October 16, 1976, who was last seen on May 16, 2003, in Waterbury Mary Jane Menard, born May 7, 1963, and who went missing in October 2003 and Danny Lee Whistnant, born October 5, 1958, and who was reported missing on June 24, 2003. Howell was formally charged on September 18, 2015, in the deaths of three women whose identities under Connecticut state law are confidential because they were victims of sexual assault. Howell entered pleas to six counts of Murder in New Britain Superior Court, where he was sentenced in November 2017 to 360 years in prison, or six consecutive life sentences. WILLIAM DEVIN HOWELL pled guilty to killing five women and a man whose bodies were found in a wooded area of New Britain after he was previously convicted of manslaughter in the slaying of another woman. Cold Cases - Arrests and Convictions William Devin Howell - Convicted