West Haven Man Charged In Wife’s Killing: Guilford Police

WEST HAVEN, CT — A West Haven man has been charged with murder in connection with his wife’s death in Guilford in July, according to police.

Robert Faison, 45, of Campbell Avenue, was arrested on a warrant Thursday and is being held in lieu of a $2 million bond. He was found at a homeless shelter in New York

Faison was identified as the suspect in the killing of his wife, 42-year-old Lindsey Hopkins, just days after she was found dead inside her Lake Quonnipaug condominium on July 22, according to Guilford police.

Police responded to a call for a welfare check on Hopkins on the morning of July 22. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

An autopsy performed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined the cause of death to be blunt force trauma and the manner of death as homicide, according to police.

Faison was found at a homeless shelter in New York City on July 30 by Connecticut State Police and New York police and taken into custody on an outstanding warrant for violation of probation, police said. He was extradited back to Connecticut on Aug. 11 and has been incarcerated since his arrest in New York.

Guilford police were assisted by Connecticut State Police, the NYPD, the New York District Attorney's Office, the Connecticut State Forensic Laboratory, the New Haven, Waterbury, Bridgeport and Madison police departments, the MTA Police Department, the FBI, the New York City Department of Corrections and the New Haven State's Attorney's Office to "develop facts and evidence linking Faison" to his wife's killing and obtained an arrest warrant for him, according to officials.