NEW HAVEN, CT – A Connecticut man has been arrested in Puerto Rico for allegedly killing a four-month-old baby and the child’s 20-year-old mother from Massachusetts.
Man allegedly killed 4-month-old baby
Lance Morales, 23, of Waterbury, Connecticut has been on the run since Tuesday when a violent dispute led to gunfire. He allegedly shot and killed the four-month-old baby and the child’s 20-year-old mother in Hartford. The mother was from Springfield.
He also injured a third person in the incident. There is no update on the condition of the third person.
Police identified Morales as the suspect and issued an arrest warrant. Hartford police worked with U.S. marshals from Massachusetts and Connecticut and discovered that Morales had fled to Puerto Rico. He was found and arrested on Saturday in a house in the town of Fajardo. He now faces extradition.
“Since this senseless and heinous act of violence was committed, investigators from the Hartford Police Department and the U.S. Marshals Service Violent Fugitive Task Forces in Connecticut and Puerto Rico have worked tirelessly around the clock to bring the suspect to justice,” said acting U.S. law enforcement personnel . Connecticut District Marshal Lawrence Bobnick said in a statement.
He has been charged with two counts of murder, first-degree assault, murder under special circumstances, criminal possession of a firearm and attempted first-degree assault.
The mother and child have not yet been identified.
