Verdict Reached In Norwalk Landlord Tenant Slaying: Report

NORWALK, CT — A jury has convicted Ellen Wink, a former Norwalk official, of murder for the 2022 death of her tenant Kurt Lametta, News 12 Connecticut reported.

Lametta, 54, a lifelong Norwalk resident who attended local schools and worked in the construction industry, was shot to death on Jan. 20, 2022, according to Norwalk police.

Jurors, who have been hearing evidence in the case in Superior Court in Stamford, reached a verdict Friday.

Wink, Norwalk’s former Republican deputy registrar, and Lametta had been embroiled in an ongoing tenant and landlord dispute, according to News 12. In 2021, Wink had been charged with criminal lockout, with police claiming she had illegally locked Lametta out of his residence, documents show. Jurors also convicted her on that count, and she is due to be sentenced in September, according to CT Insider. (Read the full CT Insider story).

Wink claimed she was acting in self-defense when she shot Lametta. Lametta had been secretly recording the fatal encounter with his landlord, and jurors were able to review the footage, according to News 12. (Read the full News 12 Connecticut story).

Wink’s defense attorney is planning to appeal the verdict, according to CT Insider.

Lametta’s estate has also sued Wink in civil court, and that case remains pending in Superior Court in Bridgeport.

In the civil case, she is also claiming she acted in self-defense, claiming she believed she was facing “imminent and immediate serious bodily harm and/or death.”

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