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Donald Krosky

Case from Trumbull, CT dated Jul 19, 1976

Victim Details

Donald E. Krosky

Male

Trumbull

CT

1976-07-19

49

Donald

Krosky

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On a summer evening in Trumbull, Connecticut, the life of 49-year-old Donald E. Krosky came to a violent end. It was July 19, 1976, when Krosky, a male proprietor of a local establishment, was fatally shot while stopped at a traffic light. Two individuals on motorcycles reportedly pulled up alongside his vehicle and opened fire, fleeing the scene immediately after. A female passenger in Krosky's car, Jean Ann McDaid, was also injured in the attack and hospitalized. Despite investigations into th ...
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