Farmington Homicide Suspect Held On $1 Million Bond

FARMINGTON, CT — The suspect in the fatal shooting of a man in bed at a Farmington home has been formally charged with murder and failed to post a seven-figure bond at his arraignment.

Police said early Friday morning that 24-year-old Deondre Dominique Linder, was also charged with criminal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, risk of injury to a child and reckless endangerment. He was arraigned Thursday and was being held on a $1 million bond Friday. His next court appearance is scheduled for March 31.

The victim has been identified as 32-year-old Farmington resident Jorge Tejada Camacho. Police said Camacho was transported from the scene by ambulance to St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, where he was pronounced dead at 12:09 a.m. Thursday.

At 10:56 Wednesday night, the Farmington Police Department received a 911 call from a single-family home on Sunset Terrace in the Unionville section of town. The caller reported that a shooting had just occurred inside the residence, police said.

Officers located Camacho lying in bed with multiple gunshot wounds, police said. According to a report, a 24-year-old man, later identified as Linder, had fled the scene in Cahacho's vehicle.

About 75 minutes later, Camacho died, police said.

Four minutes earlier, Camacho's vehicle had been located by a Farmington officer heading east on Route 4, according to a report. The car turned onto the westbound side of Interstate 84, where Farmington officers were able to "forcibly" stop the vehicle, according to a report.

Police said both victim and suspect were living together at a Sunset Terrace residence.