Ralph Sebastian Sidberry, 31, was shot at his Lantern Hill Road home in North Stonington, Connecticut, on April 12, 2017. Police found him with a gunshot wound and he was pronounced dead later that evening. Sidberry was Black/African American, a member of the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation, a husband and the father of a young daughter with another child expected.

Investigators identified a person of interest and in September 2017 charged 30-year-old James Armstrong of New London with Sidberry’s murder. Authorities located Armstrong at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri, extradited him to Connecticut, and he was held on $2 million bond. Reportedly Armstrong believed Sidberry was spreading HIV; subsequent testing showed Sidberry did not have the virus.

Legal proceedings did not progress to a typical criminal trial because Armstrong was repeatedly found not competent to stand trial and has been civilly committed to Whiting Forensic Hospital in Middletown. Sidberry’s family experienced additional distress when a clerical error indicated the civil commitment had ended. Does anyone have information about Ralph Sidberry or that community in North Stonington in April 2017?