Man Charged In Connection With Manchester Double Homicide

MANCHESTER, CT — A Massachusetts man was charged on a warrant with two counts of murder Saturday, following a lengthy state police investigation into an early August shooting at a commuter parking lot in Manchester which left two people dead.

Gregory Crichlow, 21, of Springfield was taken into custody Sunday night following a traffic stop in Hartford. He is being held in lieu of $2 million bail, and is slated to be arraigned Monday in Hartford Superior Court.

The shooting took place around 2 a.m. on Aug. 2, at the Connecticut Department of Transportation commuter lot at Buckland Street and Pleasant Valley Road in Manchester amid a gathering of between 100 and 200 people, state police said.

Jennifer Hicks, 20, and Gregory Scott, 24, both of Massachusetts, were shot as they sat inside a Jeep Wrangler in the commuter lot during a "car meetup" which originated in Springfield. Each was later pronounced dead at St. Francis and Hartford hospitals, respectively.

An affidavit supporting Crichlow's arrest indicates he is a member of a gang called the Knox Street Posse, and that Scott belonged to a rival gang known as the Sycamore Street Posse. The two groups have a "notorious history of retaliatory violence against the other," according to the warrant.

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