BRIDGEPORT — Police have arrested two suspects in connection with the 2013 disappearance of a city man.
According to police, Shawn Gibson, 45, of Hamden, was arrested Wednesday and was charged with the murder of Aryndel Castro, 24.
A second suspect, Terrance Boyd, 55, of Columbia, S.C., was also arrested yesterday in South Carolina.
Castro was reported missing in September 2013. The following spring, members of the Bridgeport Police Homicide Unit got involved in the case, investigating it as a possible homicide.
As of Thursday afternoon, Castro’s body had not been recovered, but police said “strong evidence” exists to believe that Gibson, with Boyd’s assistance, beat and choked Castro to death on the evening of September 22, 2013, in room #1 of a rooming house on Noble Avenue.
Police said the evidence also suggests that the two men then engaged in an elaborate clean-up effort, purchasing cleaning supplies at the Home Depot on multiple occasions and renting vans from Home Depot and U-Haul. They reportedly used these vans to move Castro’s body more than once in the days following the murder, police said.
During a post-arrest interview, Gibson acknowledged disposing of the body and agreed to cooperate with detectives to recover Castro’s remains.
Gibson is being held on a $250,000 bond. Once the extradition process is complete, Boyd will be brought to Connecticut and will also be charged with murder, police said.
from News https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Two-charged-with-murder-in-connection-with-2013-16688907.php
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