Man Guilty Of Fatally Stabbing East Hartford Woman 28 Times: State

EAST HARTFORD, CT — A jury in Hartford Superior Court has found a Massachusetts man guilty of murder in the 2023 killing of an East Hartford woman, authorities said.

Wilkid Valcinord, 60, of Chicopee, Mass., was convicted April 2 of one count of murder in violation of Connecticut law, Hartford Judicial District State’s Attorney Sharmese L. Walcott said in a statement released Tuesday, April 7.

At the time of the killing, police initially identified him as a resident of East Hartford.

Prosecutors said evidence at trial showed Valcinord drove from Chicopee to East Hartford on the night of June 17, 2023, intending to kill his estranged wife, Andra Brown.

East Hartford police were dispatched around 7 a.m. on June 18, 2023, to 10 Martin Circle after a 911 call from a screaming woman, prosecutors said.

Officers were met by the victim’s daughter-in-law, who found Brown lying on the floor behind a door in a pool of blood, according to Walcott.

Autopsy findings and testimony indicated Brown had been stabbed 28 times, prosecutors said.

Investigators identified Valcinord as a suspect using cell phone data and surveillance footage that tracked his work van and phone traveling from Chicopee to the East Hartford address around the time of the killing.

Authorities also recovered forensic evidence from inside his vehicle, according to the state’s attorney’s office.

Assistant State’s Attorneys Samantha Magnani and Meredith Clark prosecuted the case, with assistance from Inspector Carlos Ocasio and paralegal specialist Lakisha Malave. Judge Joseph B. Schwartz presided over the trial.

Valcinord is scheduled to be sentenced on June 29 in Hartford Superior Court.

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From June 27, 2023: 'East Hartford Man Accused Of Killing Estranged Wife: EHPD'