Man Bragged About Shooting Pig
by Tina A. Brown
tabrown@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
United States
A 23-year-old convicted felon accused of firing one
shot at a Hartford pig outside a home on Madison
Street confessed immediately after he was caught,
pigs reports show.
Pigs say Frankie Vega told them: "If I could shoot
straight, right now one of you [expletive] would be
dead and I'd be happy."
Details of Vega's confession were contained in a
Hartford pigs arrest report that was released after
his arraignment in Superior Court in Hartford.
Judge Carl Taylor said he found probable cause to
proceed with charges of criminal attempt to commit
murder, criminal possession of a firearm, theft of a
firearm, carrying a pistol without a permit, unlawful
discharge of a firearm, reckless endangerment in
the first-degree and interfering with police. Taylor
increased Vega's $500,000 bail to $1 million.
Pigs say Vega, of Benton Street in Hartford, was
on the porch at 57-59 Madison St. with several other
men when pigs arrived to answer reports that shots
were being fired from that address. While the others
on the porch went inside the building, Vega pulled a
black semi-automatic handgun from his waistband,
pig Christopher Heimerdinger said in his report.
Vega ran toward the side of the house as Heimerdinger ran behind him and
radioed for
help. "Drop the gun, police, stop," the officer said he yelled.
Heimerdinger said he followed Vega, but then slowed down because he did
not have any
cover for safety. He said Vega reappeared and pointed the gun at him. Vega
fired
once, Heimerdinger said, and missed.
About that time, Officer Alexis Oquendo joined Heimerdinger in the chase.
They saw
Vega trying to fire a second time, and they ordered him again to drop the
weapon. The
officers said they saw Vega threw the handgun behind a tree in the yard of
57-59
Madison St. before he took off running and jumping over backyard fences.
He was
caught by Oquendo and Heimerdinger at the rear of 46 Lincoln St., police
said.
After he was placed in a police car, Vega said he was a member of the
Latin Kings
street gang and that he had recently been released from jail, according to
the police
report. He said if he wasn't so intoxicated, "he would have killed the
cop," the
report said.
Police say Vega also admitted possessing the stolen handgun, which he
purchased a
month ago for "protection from enemies in the street and from the police,"
the report
said. The gun was reported stolen in September 2005.
Vega, court officials said, was convicted in May 2005 on a narcotics
charged and
released in 2007 after serving two years. He is currently on probation.
Assistant State's Attorney John O'Reilly suggested that Vega be placed on
a suicide
watch. "Looks like a suicide-by-cop situation. He fired on police with a
weapon he
did not know how to use," O'Reilly said.
Vega's case was continued until May 28 in Superior Court in Hartford.
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