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Jose Araujo

Case from Bridgeport, CT dated Mar 26, 2015

Victim Details

Jose Araujo

Male

Hispanic / Latino

Bridgeport

CT

2015-03-26

30

Jose

Araujo

07/01/2026

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On the morning of Thursday, March 26, 2015, Jose Araujo, a 30-year-old male, was diligently working at a construction site at the intersection of Chopsey Hill Road and Pond Street in Bridgeport, Connecticut. An immigrant from Cape Verde, he was an employee of Burns Construction Co., digging a ditch to support his family, which included his young son. His life was abruptly cut short in a seemingly random act of violence that morning.

A man, later identified as 33-year-old Gregory Weathers ...
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    I’ve been thinking about how the justice system handled the sentencing of Gregory Weathers Jr. for... ...Read More
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    I can’t stop thinking about how utterly senseless this tragedy was. It's hard to comprehend how so... ...Read More
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    I’ve been thinking a lot about the randomness of Jose Araujo’s tragic death and how utterly terr... ...Read More
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