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A man who is charged in a shooting that left another man dead last summer in Norwich appeared virtually in court in New London on Friday afternoon.
Phillip C. Wise, 40, whose last known address was in Norwich, appeared via video conference before Judge Hillary B. Strackbein and was scheduled to next appear in court on April 6.
Wise had been arraigned Wednesday in Norwich and his case was transferred to the Part A courthouse in New London, where major crimes are heard. Judge Strackbein maintained the $2 million bail set by Judge Nuala Droney in Norwich.
Wise was extradited from North Carolina to Norwich on Tuesday after being arrested on a warrant issued in Connecticut on July 24, charging him with the murder of Anthony Lashawn Williams, 39, of Norwich, according to the Norwich Police Department.
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Published February 23. 2021 7:41PM
Kelan Lyons, The Connecticut Mirror
Three weeks into the Department of Correction’s vaccinations of the incarcerated population, 837 inmates less than 10% of the 9,034 people in prisons and jails as of Feb. 22 have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The department received another 500 doses Tuesday morning. Department Director of External Affairs Karen Martucci said the DOC has used all of the shots it has received and is seeking more.
“We roll them out as they come in,” she said.
The DOC began vaccinating the 27 incarcerated individuals age 75 or older in early February and then began vaccinating people between the ages of 65 and 74.
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An Old Lyme man charged in connection with a hit-and-run accident that claimed the life of 19-year-old pedestrian Yeison Jayson Gomez Cruz in 2017 has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, suspended after 2½ years served, with three years of probation.
Daniel J. Coffee, 38, was sentenced before Judge Hunchu Kwak in New London Superior Court on Dec. 14 after pleading no contest to evading responsibility for leaving the scene of the accident that took place on a stormy October night three years ago.
Coffee, who had rejected an earlier plea offer and appeared to be headed for trial, in October accepted an offer from prosecutor Rafael Bustamante that called for the sentence of 10 years in prison, suspended after three years served, followed by three years of probation. His sentence was reduced and carried out by Judge Kwak on Monday. Coffee was taken into custody and brought to Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Center to begin his sentence.