At 4:36 a.m., video footage shows a passenger get out of the vehicle and approach a Nissan Sentra. Police obtained surveillance footage from multiple Alma Street residents, which showed a dark-colored sedan, later identified as a 2012 Mercedes CLS, drive east down the road at 4:35 a.m. When she looked out the window, she saw a black sedan speed down the street and strike the man, causing him to go up onto the hood and fall off onto the road, according to the warrant. The man's girlfriend told police she woke up when the man got out of bed and ran to his white pickup truck. Due to his critical condition and the severity of his injuries, the hospital did not expect the man to survive, according to the warrant.Īs of Friday, the victim is being treated at a long-term rehabilitation facility, police said. The hospital later told police that the man had suffered a severe brain injury and serious injuries to his lungs. Once the ambulance arrived, the man was taken to the Waterbury Hospital emergency room for further treatment. The officers started to render aid, rolling the man onto his side and using a trauma dressing to try and slow the bleeding from the man's head, the warrant said. The man was "exhibiting agonal breathing," or gasping for air, and officers could see his face and head were injured. There, they found the victim, a 42-year-old Naugatuck man, lying unresponsive in the middle of the road with a large pool of blood forming around his upper body, according to Santos' arrest warrant. Officers were called to Alma Street at around 4:40 a.m. On Thursday, the Naugatuck Police Department announced it charged three Hartford men with the incident: the alleged driver, 24-year-old Dallas Diamond Rodriguez, and two passengers, 23-year-old John Carlos Santos and 22-year-old TaJay Javon Hunter. His ashes will be scattered at a favorite fishing spot.But it wasn’t until one man connected to the incident came clean that officers were able to identify the suspects. James Cole said his brother wished to be cremated. Friday at the Danbury Memorial Funeral Home. Naugatuck police said Cole's death is not believed to be suspicious and police are investigating if a "medical issue" led to his death.Ī celebration of life will be held at 6 p.m. Naugatuck police said they found a man and determined he had died. 19, officers were dispatched to the Holy Savior Polish National Cemetery on New Haven Road for "an unresponsive person." Naugatuck police said sometime after 4 p.m. "We extend our deepest condolences to his family and all who knew him." He was well regarded as a caring and supportive supervisor and will be sincerely missed," Newtown police said in a statement announcing his death. "Affectionately known by his NPD family as, 'Johnny,' or, 'JC,' he is remembered fondly by those who served with him. He graduated from Danbury High School in 1979 and attended Naugatuck Community College. 4, 1961 to Pearline Harris and Quiney Cole in Kissimmee, Fla. He had the ability to laugh at things in life that "if you didn't have a sense of humor, you probably wouldn't laugh at," his brother said. He was also an avid basketball player, earning the nickname "Smoke," for his ability to smoke other players on the court. Quiet and tall at about 6-foot-2, Cole was an avid fisherman who would sometimes fillet his catches and drop them off at local shelters, his brother recalled. James Cole said his brother's role was logistics, keeping everything flowing at the chaotic scene outside the school. James Cole remembered his brother calling him while he was driving to a meeting in New Haven to say that he had just gotten off work, but had to go to the school because someone had shot the principal.Ĭole responded to the perimeter after the shooting, according to Newtown police. 14, 2012, Cole was among the droves of law enforcement officers who responded in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. "He would always say, 'I am not meant to sit behind a desk and wear a suit.'" "He wanted to be on the street watching out for his guys, he was a street cop," his brother said. He became a detective sergeant in 2006, but returned to patrol before his retirement in 2014. He was hired by the department in 1989.ĭuring his more than two decades on the force, Cole served as a member of the statewide narcotics task force, winning an award for a large-scale arrest in Norwalk, the department said. Dejected, Cole grabbed his towel and started to leave, assuming he had failed, but the officials called him back for having jumped in anyway, his brother said.
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