Husband Charged With Murder In Death Of Wife In Guilford: Police

GUILFORD, CT — The husband of a Guilford woman killed last July has been charged with her murder, Guilford police said Thursday.

Robert Faison, 45, of West Haven is being held on $2 million bond in connection with the killing of his wife, Lindsey Hopkins, 42.

Connecticut State Police and the NYPD found Faison in a homeless shelter in New York City, according to a news release from Guilford Police Department Deputy Chief Christopher Massey.

Police said he was identified as a suspect just days after Hopkins was found dead on July 22 inside her Lake Quonnipaug condo.

Police had been called to do a welfare check by "someone close" to Hopkins, police said then. The Guilford Police Department and Fire Department responded and found Hopkins "suffering from obvious injuries," and she was pronounced dead. A spokesperson from the medical examiner's office told Patch at the time that her cause of death was "blunt force trauma to the head and neck."

Massey said that when Faison was found in New York, he was taken into custody for an outstanding Connecticut violation of probation warrant and was extradited back to the state on Aug. 11 and has been locked up since.

Massey said that Guilford police were assisted by Connecticut State Police, the NYPD, the New York District Attorney’s Office, the Connecticut State Forensic Laboratory, the New Haven, Waterbury, Bridgeport and Madison police departments, the MTA Police Department, the FBI, the New York City Department of Corrections and the New Haven State's Attorney's Office to "develop facts and evidence linking Faison" to his wife's murder.

An arrest warrant was secured Thursday, and he was charged with murder.