$1 Million Bond Upheld In Court In Manchester Popeyes Stabbing Case

MANCHESTER, — A $1 million bond put on the case of a 38-year-old East Hartford man charged in what authorities are calling an attempted killing at a Manchester chicken joint was upheld by a judge at his Monday arraignment.

Leonel Colon-Ortiz failed to post it and is due back in court on Oct. 5, according t0 judicial system records. He was still in custody as of Tuesday.

He has been charged with:

• Attempted murder
• First-degree assault
• First-degree threatening
• Third-degree assault
• Carrying a dangerous weapon
• Second-degree breach of peace (2 Counts)
• First-degree reckless endangerment (2 Counts)
• Interfering with police

According to an arrest report, the stabbing took place just before 3 p.m. on in the parking lot of Popeyes, 199 Spencer St.

It began as a domestic dispute involving Colon-Ortiz and a 41-year-old woman, just before 3 p.m. Friday, police said. The woman was seen exiting the passenger seat of a vehicle, bleeding from the right side of her abdomen, according to an incident report. She was taken to Hartford Hospital, where she was "recovering," police said.

Colon-Ortiz is accused of stabbing the woman while standing outside the vehicle she was sitting in and then fleeing on foot, according to an incident report. He was located by a Manchester Police dog unit in a wooded area north of Pascal Lane, according t0 an incident report.