Connecticut man sentenced to 55 years in manhunt killing
MILFORD, Conn. — A 26-year outdated man who used a sword to assault two males in Japanese Connecticut earlier than occurring a criminal offense spree that included killing a former classmate and kidnapping a lady earlier than throughout a multistate manhunt was sentenced Wednesday to 55 years in jail.
Peter Manfredonia pleaded responsible in February to homicide, kidnapping and different costs within the capturing demise of Nicholas Eisele, 23, and the kidnapping of Eisele’s girlfriend.
Family and friends of Eisele wore T-shirts to Milford Superior Court docket emblazoned together with his photograph inside a coronary heart with phrases studying “So long as I breathe you may be remembered. Justice for Nick.”
Manfredonia apologized individually to the Eisele household and kidnapping sufferer Shannon Spies.
“There aren’t any phrases that may probably atone for what I’ve completed. My actions had been nothing wanting reprehensible,” he stated. “What I did was inexcusably horrendous and I’ll remorse it day by day for the remainder of my life.”
Manfredonia has additionally pleaded responsible to homicide and different costs within the sword assault and is scheduled to be sentenced for these crimes on Thursday.
Police and prosecutors stated Manfredonia killed Ted DeMers, 62, and significantly wounded an 80-year-old man who misplaced a number of fingers and a part of his ear in a Samurai sword assault in Willington, Connecticut on Might 22, 2020.
It’s not clear why Manfredonia attacked the boys, however an acquaintance of his lived close to DeMers’ house and informed police she had lately stopped seeing him.
After the sword assault, police stated Manfredonia broke into one other man’s home in Willington and held him hostage for about 24 hours earlier than taking off together with his truck and firearms. The person later informed police that Manfredonia informed him “he simply flipped.”
Two days later, Manfredonia went to Derby, Connecticut, to the house of Eisele, a highschool good friend, and fatally shot him, authorities stated. He then pressured Eisele’s girlfriend into her automobile and fled the state, police stated.
The violence in Connecticut was adopted by a six-day search in a number of states.
After Manfredonia let the girl go close to Columbia, New Jersey, investigators tracked him to Pennsylvania, the place police stated he took an Uber to a Walmart in East Stroudsburg. Authorities searched the world however didn’t discover him. A person becoming his description was later noticed close to Scranton, Pennsylvania, prompting one other search there.
Police consider Manfredonia stole a automobile and deserted it in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, earlier than taking one other Uber to Hagerstown, Maryland, the place he was captured with out incident when police noticed him close to a truck cease.