2 Charged With Murder In 2013 Cold Case In Bridgeport: Police

BRIDGEPORT, CT — A Hamden man has been charged in connection with the killing of a man who went missing in 2013, according to police.

Bridgeport detectives exhumed the body of a man believed to Aryndel Castro on Thursday afternoon, according to officials. The body was buried under 5 feet of earth under the detached garage of a single-family home in the 1800 block of Bridgeport, according to police.

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will perform an autopsy on Friday to confirm the identity of the man.

Castro, 24, was reported missing in September 2013. Members of the Bridgeport Police Homicide Unit got involved in the case the following spring and began investigating it as a possible homicide.

Shawn Gibson, 45, of Lakeview Avenue in Hamden, was arrested Wednesday in connection with Castro’s disappearance. He is accused of killing Castro with the assistance of Terrance Boyd, 55, of Columbia, South Carolina, according to police. Boyd was arrested Wednesday morning in Columbia, South Carolina.

Police believe Gibson, with Boyd’s assistance, beat and choked Castro to death on Sept. 22, 2013, in room #1 of the rooming house at 941 Noble Ave., according to a news release.

“The evidence also suggests that the two men then engaged in an elaborate clean-up effort, purchasing cleaning supplies on multiple occasions at The Home Depot and renting vans twice, once from The Home Depot, and the other from U-Haul,” police wrote in the news release. “They reportedly used these vans to move Castro’s body more than once in the days following the murder.”

During a post-arrest interview, police said Gibson acknowledged “disposing of the body and agreed to cooperate with detectives to recover Castro’s remains,” the news release states.

Gibson was charged with murder and was being held in lieu of a $250,000 bond.

Boyd will be brought to Connecticut once the extradition process is complete and will also be charged with murder, according to police.

The Connecticut Post reported that Boyd told police, according to the arrest warrant affidavit, that Castro stole tools from Gibson and he “didn’t like it. He told me to go get the guy. Brought him to the house, beat him to death and then buried him.”

Read more at the Connecticut Post here.