Crime & Safety

Bridgeport Grocery Store Owner's Killer Sentenced: Report

BREAKING: A sentence has been handed down in a crime that shook the city's Hollow neighborhood.

BRIDGEPORT, CT — The man who killed a popular business owner in the city's Hollow neighborhood will spend the next 40 years behind bars, reports the Connecticut Post. Leighton Vanderberg, 23, of New Haven was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Robert Devlin for fatally shooting Jose Salgado during a robbery of his Sapiao Grocery store in 2015.

Police say Jose Salgado and wife Maria were closing up shop when Vanderberg and Treizy Lopez, 20, entered the store and shot Salgado in front of his wife. Devlin told Vanderberg he deserved every year of the sentence he received.

Vanderberg and Lopez were previously involved in a New Haven robbery, and came to the city to rob drug dealers. Lopez is still awaiting trial in the case.

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