Branford man charged in homicide, held on $3 million bond
FOX 61
[{'start': '0.009', 'end': '2.990', 'text': "Breaking news now on Fox 61, Connecticut's news station. Thanks for staying with us. We continue to follow breaking news in Branford this evening, where a man is under arrest, accused in a domestic related homicide. Good evening. I'm Stephan Reels. Now this has been an active scene in the town of Branford. 52 year old Anthony Esposito Junior is now in custody and charged with the murder in the case. Police have been investigating in the area of Hemlock Road for hours. Fox 61's Kay Patty Ffoot has been on the ground and has new information from police and reaction from shocked neighbors. Neighbors who live in the Hemlock area were shocked to see a huge police response to their corner of town. Early Thursday evening, Branford police reported there had been a homicide in this community. Neighbors tell me they knew something was up when they saw all the police SUVs in the area. One neighbor says it was his dogs that alerted him to what sounded like gunshots going off. -- I -- looked out there. I says, I see like all these police cruisers out here. I said, wait a minute. This is more like it's been in the past. I mean, normally you see police cruisers like maybe 3 or 4 going the opposite direction, and there's been a couple out here before in the past, fairly recently. I think it was last year, but today was something else and then to find like a homicide mobile unit, it's like, you gotta be kidding me. -- It's very -- hor uh horrible what's, uh, what must have happened up there and, uh, we feel bad for the family and everything, but this is a. Very peaceful neighborhood. Everybody gets along. People are walking their dogs, walking kids. Kids are playing all the time. This is still an active scene and investigation. State police are also here as well. We'll provide updates as soon as we get them in Branford, Cape Pattyfoot, Fox 61."}]