Police Expect To Bring Murder Suspect Back To RI In 2 Weeks

NEW LONDON, CT — As Louis M. Seignious Jr. 31, appeared before a Superior Court judge facing myriad charges by Groton City and Mashantucket Tribal Police, Westerly RI Police Chief Shawn Lacey said the Norwich man will soon be back in the Ocean State to face a charge of first-degree murder.

Lacey told Patch Seignious "waived extradition" but would be held in Connecticut until his next court date, Feb. 19 "to be brought back before the judge to be heard" on the Groton City and Mashantucket police charges, two of which are felonies. Lacey said his officers will "transport him back to Rhode Island" at that time.

Currently held on $1.5 million bond, he is jailed at the high-security Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Center in Uncasville.

Seignious is facing charges leveled by Groton City Police, who captured him Saturday, including two counts of criminal mischief and interfering with an officer. He is also facing charges from Mashantucket Tribal Police of first-degree attempt to commit assault, first-degree reckless endangerment and engaging in a police pursuit.

The Tribal police charges are in connection with the Jan. 25 police pursuit of Seignious who police said fled from the scene of a fatal shooting in Westerly's North End neighborhood. Seignious is accused of killing his cousin, Vincent A. Sebastian III, 28, of Ledyard, who died from a single gunshot wound to the chest. Both men are members of the Mashantucket Pequot tribe.

Police told Patch the following day that that Sebastian had begun dating the mother of Seignious' child and that caused tension between the men. Police also said there had been a longstanding issue between the men since their convictions for a 2011 home invasion. Throughout the search for Seignious, Lacey told Patch, investigators closely monitored the social media pages of other tribal members and the two families and police were able to develop leads and got tips as well, they said. Lacey said from the outset that despite information Seignious had left the state, he believed the man was still in the area.

Saturday, he turned up at a party in Groton City. And a tip from a person there led police to an apartment complex where he was hiding, in attic rafters, until he crashed though a ceiling and into police custody.

Read all of Patch's coverage of the case:

Shooting Victim Named, As Suspect, His Cousin, Is Loose

Norwich Man Shoots, Kills Cousin In Westerly, Is On The Run: Cops

Fatal Shooting Suspect Louis Seignious: What You Need To Know

Suspected Killer's Mother: 'My Son Was Set-Up'

Groton City Police Capture Westerly Murder Suspect