Chief Matthew Carl
Appearances
The Deck
Javed Akhtar (Jack of Diamonds, Connecticut)
We can connect them to Manchester and Mill Pond Village, and so they become our prime suspects. We can put them in Mill Pond in the past.
The Deck
Javed Akhtar (Jack of Diamonds, Connecticut)
You know, you use a gun, you turn it in, you get another gun, you go back out.
The Deck
Javed Akhtar (Jack of Diamonds, Connecticut)
The reason for that is that if I do something bad with a gun and I turn it in and then somebody else does something bad with a gun and turns it in, whatever, and then they trace that gun and it comes back to like six or seven bodies, the people that were caught with that gun at the time are always going to have different alibis because it's not the same person.
The Deck
Javed Akhtar (Jack of Diamonds, Connecticut)
There was a couple of them that were prominent down in Hartford at the time. So when you hit a location, you sometimes find 30 or 40 guns, and those guns would all be used if they were run through ATF or whatever. You could show that one gun was used in nine homicides. That gun was a gun library gun. So it just blows apart your whole alibi that one person would be responsible.
The Deck
Javed Akhtar (Jack of Diamonds, Connecticut)
He wouldn't even get out of the car because he was trying to work some deal. And then we were done with him. We're done.
The Deck
Javed Akhtar (Jack of Diamonds, Connecticut)
She had been in a mosque that Sunday prior, the Medina Mosque in Windsor, and was told by the ex-husband, you should have married me or you marry me or I'll kill you. And she believed it was a revenge thing. He killed the husband.
The Deck
Javed Akhtar (Jack of Diamonds, Connecticut)
We've withheld enough detail so that if you were to come in here and tell us a story, we could tell very quickly whether you knew what you were talking about or not.
The Deck
Javed Akhtar (Jack of Diamonds, Connecticut)
he had been shot in the chest. And so he was fighting for his life. The ambulance lost him a couple of times. I can tell you he wasn't talking. He might have been some level of conscious, but it's not like he could communicate with us.
The Deck
Javed Akhtar (Jack of Diamonds, Connecticut)
Rafia doesn't have him at home, calls the brother, says, hey, he's not home, he's usually home, something's wrong here.
The Deck
Javed Akhtar (Jack of Diamonds, Connecticut)
We had had murders in there before. Very familiar with the area and some of the residents.
The Deck
Javed Akhtar (Jack of Diamonds, Connecticut)
And there were long strides like they were running. We established that that was their exit.
The Deck
Javed Akhtar (Jack of Diamonds, Connecticut)
We contacted the state police major crimes unit. They helped us canvass the neighborhood. We start to develop the usual suspects. Some of the people that we knew were violent or capable of this or had been accused of this in the past. We start to alibi some of those guys out.
The Deck
Javed Akhtar (Jack of Diamonds, Connecticut)
The state police reported quite a bit of stories of where he was just a fabulous person. He gave me milk when I couldn't afford it for my kids. He did this, he did that. He was very, very, very well liked. People were what I would describe as outraged.
The Deck
Javed Akhtar (Jack of Diamonds, Connecticut)
This particular location had been robbed a couple of times, even that year.
The Deck
Javed Akhtar (Jack of Diamonds, Connecticut)
The shot happened outside. I don't know if he was closing up, shutting the door. They tried to come in. Maybe he was pushing them away. But clearly he resisted whatever was happening at the time when they shot him.
The Deck
Javed Akhtar (Jack of Diamonds, Connecticut)
When I got to the hospital that day, he was unconscious. He was the same way as always. I contacted the on-duty doctor at the time, and he told me that none of that could have happened. He was still intubated. The two was there. There was no ability. He was under their sedation.