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Gregory Weathers Jr., 33, of Saunders Avenue, was being treated Friday at Bridgeport Hospital, the Connecticut Post said.
Weathers was arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a construction worker, 30-year-old Jose Araujo, while he was working on Chopsey Hill Road near Pond Street in Bridgeport's North End at about 9 a.m. Thursday.
Araujo, a Milford resident, worked for the Burns Construction Co.
Weathers had first approached a company foreman and inquired about a job. The foreman referred him to the company office to fill out an application. Weathers walked away but returned a short time later.
Weathers, for “no apparent reason,” approached Araujo and shot him five times with a revolver, Bridgeport Chief of Police Joseph Gaudett said. Araujo was taken to St. Vincent’s Medical Center, where he died.
Two officers who were at the road construction site to direct traffic pursued the suspect on foot, set up a perimeter and were able to corral Weathers, who immediately confessed, the chief said.
He was apprehended behind a house on Saunders Avenue near his home, Gaudett said.
Weathers has been arrested four times in the last three years on drunken driving charges and faced a mandatory prison term at a sentencing next month, according to the Post.
It was the second deadly shooting in two days in the area. A 32-year-old clerk at the nearby T Market on Reservoir Avenue was fatally shot multiple times in the torso on Wednesday morning. No arrests have been made in that homicide.
Read the full story on the postponed arraignment on the Connecticut Post website.
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