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4 Bridgeport Men Charged In Connection To Murder: Feds

Four Bridgeport men are facing charges in a shooting case.

Four Bridgeport men are facing charges in a shooting case.
Four Bridgeport men are facing charges in a shooting case. (Shutterstock)

BRIDGEPORT, CT — Four Bridgeport men have been charged in connection with a murder as well as robbery charges, according to a statement from federal prosecutors. The four men are allegedly part of the Original North End, or "ONE."

According to prosecutors, in the early morning hours of Aug. 13, 2018, a man was shot and killed and a woman was shot and seriously wounded while both were seated in a car parked on Union Avenue in Bridgeport.

Surveillance video showed that the shots were fired from a stolen white Jeep Grand Cherokee that had pulled up next to the car and then fled the scene. About three hours later, a white Jeep Grand Cherokee was found burning in Indian Wells State Park in Shelton.

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The Bridgeport men charged in the case include Henry Floy, aka "Mills," 21; Shakale Brantley, aka "Charlie Wilson," Kellz," and "Man Man," 20; Antoine Sistrunk, 21; and Ta'ron Pharr, aka "250," 20. Jaylen Wilson, aka "Jay-Dot," 21, of Ansonia and Derby, was also charged.

Prosecutors allege that Floy, Brantley, Pharr and Wilson stole the Jeep from Newburgh, New York, and drove it back to Bridgeport. Then ONE members murdered the male victim on August 13, 2018, and seriously wounded his female companion.

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After the murder, Floy, Brantley, and Sistrunk attempted to destroy the Jeep and other evidence used in the murder.

In March, a federal grand jury in Bridgeport returned an indictment charging Floy, Brantley, and Sistrunk with one count of accessory after the fact to murder, in violation of the Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering (VICAR) statute. In addition, Floy, Brantley, Pharr and Wilson are charged with one count of interstate transportation of stolen property.

They were later arrested on this charge and the investigation continued, revealing that Brantley and other ONE members robbed drug dealers in 2018.

After Brantley was arrested in March 2020, and while he was in prison, he attempted to solicit others to kill the victim of these robberies in order to avoid prosecution.

On July 8, a grand jury in New Haven returned a superseding indictment adding Pharr and Wilson as defendants, along with additional charges. Pharr and Wilson were arrested on state charges July 7 and are currently detained.

The superseding indictment also charges Brantley with two counts of interference with commerce by robbery, one count of conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery, one count of solicitation of witness tampering, and one count of tampering with a witness by threat. Each of these charges carry a maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years.


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