{"id":1196,"date":"2021-09-18T16:47:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T16:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CBMiWmh0dHBzOi8vY29ubmVjdGljdXQubmV3czEyLmNvbS92aWdpbC1wYXlzLXRyaWJ1dGUtdG8tc2xhaW4tMjEteWVhci1vbGQtbWFuLWZyb20tYnJpZGdlcG9ydNIBAA"},"modified":"2021-09-18T16:47:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T16:47:44","slug":"vigil-pays-tribute-to-slain-21-year-old-man-from-bridgeport-news-12-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=1196","title":{"rendered":"Vigil pays tribute to slain 21-year-old man from Bridgeport &#8211; News 12 Connecticut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/vigil-pays-tribute-to-slain-21-year-old-man-from-bridgeport-news-12-connecticut.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"byline\"><span class=\"author\">News 12 Staff<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"date\">Sep 18, 2021, 10:13pm<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"datetime\">\n<p><span class=\"text\">Updated on: <!-- -->Sep 18, 2021, 10:13pm<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Bridgeport community came together to support the family of slain 21-year-old Jamel Hayden and to thank police for their speedy arrest of a suspect in this case.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly three weeks after Hayden was shot to death on Lincoln Avenue, police said they arrested a 16-year-old suspect Friday morning. <\/p>\n<p>A small group of residents and elected officials came together Saturday to hold what they called a \u201cvigil of thanks\u201d for progress in the case. <\/p>\n<p>The group says they want Hayden\u2019s loved ones to know they are not alone and that he didn&#8217;t die in vain. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a double tragedy here \u2014 a young person taken; a young person arrested. We want to see the end of gun violence in the city of Bridgeport,\u201d says state Sen. Dennis Bradley.<\/p>\n<p>Resident Carolyn Vermont says, &#8220;I think as a community we have to work harder. We know the guns are coming in\u2014 but somehow we have to get through to our young people to make better choices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police released surveillance video shortly after the murder that showed suspects running from the scene. Investigators say they believe the suspects tried to steal $250 worth of marijuana from the victim and when he resisted, they shot him in the back. <\/p>\n<p>The 16-year-old suspect is being held on a $3 million bond.<\/p>\n<p>The group is demanding that the other suspects in the case be quickly arrested as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News 12 Staff Sep 18, 2021, 10:13pm Updated on: Sep 18, 2021, 10:13pm The Bridgeport community came together to support the family of slain 21-year-old Jamel Hayden and to thank police for their speedy arrest of a suspect in this case. Exactly three weeks after Hayden was shot to death on Lincoln Avenue, police said they arrested a 16-year-old suspect Friday morning. A small group of residents and elected officials came together Saturday to hold what they called a \u201cvigil of thanks\u201d for progress in the case. The group says they want Hayden\u2019s loved ones to know they are not&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/vigil-pays-tribute-to-slain-21-year-old-man-from-bridgeport-news-12-connecticut.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}