Crime & Safety
Taco Bell Employee Charged With Shooting At Hartford Restaurant
A employee is facing charges following a double shooting at a Taco Bell parking lot earlier this month.
HARTFORD, CT — A Taco Bell employee has been arrested on accusations that he shot two people in the restaurant's parking lot last month, NBC CT reported. Armando Perez, 34, of East Hartford, faces charges of criminal attempt at murder, assault, criminal use of a firearm and criminal possession of a firearm.
He was held on $750,000 bond.
Police were called to the restaurant on Flatbush Avenue on Nov. 15 for reports of a shooting that injured two people. The victims were found in the parking lot where they were transported to Hartford Hospital and treated for gunshot wounds.
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The two victims were not customers or employees at the restaurant, according to NBC CT.
Police found a gun in the restaurant and later obtained a warrant for Perez's arrest. He later turned himself in to police, according to WFSB.
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