The Associated Press via The Beaumont Enterprise
WATERBURY, Conn. — A Superior Court judge has rejected the latest appeal from a death-row inmate who was convicted of killing a police officer in 1992.
Richard Reynolds was convicted of shooting Officer Walter Williams in the head after he and another man were stopped by Williams on a Waterbury street just before 4 a.m. on Dec. 18, 1992.
Williams, who was 34, was on routine patrol when he stopped Reynolds for questioning. After bumping into Williams and determining he was wearing a bulletproof vest, Reynolds shot him in the left side of the head at point-blank range, prosecutors said. The shooting happened 11 days before Williams’ third son was born.
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