Shane Slinsky was 18 when he was found shot twice in the head on Wood Terrace in Bridgeport on August 27, 2016. First responders and a bystander tried to save him, but he was pronounced dead at the hospital; his death was Bridgeport’s sixth homicide of that year.

Investigators initially thought the killing sprang from a drug deal gone wrong, but the probe later pointed toward a planned robbery. Police say Slinsky was lured from his hometown of Stamford to the side street by people he considered friends. Authorities allege the motive was robbery tied to a recent financial settlement Slinsky had received from the city of Stamford after a troubled relationship with a former high school teacher.

By March 2017 police had arrested Jeremy Middleton and charged him with felony murder and robbery; later arrests followed in 2018. Middleton’s mother described Middleton as Shane’s best friend. What else can anyone add about Shane’s movements that day or about people who might have been with him on Wood Terrace?