Screams lead police to dead 19-year-old and toddler in apartment, Connecticut cops say

Screaming from an apartment led officers to two dead bodies, Connecticut police told news outlets.

On Feb. 15, West Haven officers responded to an apartment and found the fatally stabbed bodies of a 2-year-old boy and a 19-year-old woman, police told WVIT.

“I heard someone scream ‘No no no.’ I was looking out the window wondering what was going on,” neighbor Mosss Hanley told WTNH. “I was kind of in denial at first but I knew right then and there it was bad and was definitely a murder.”

The suspect, identified as 26-year-old Jevon Tyrese Fletcher, was dating the woman, and the toddler was his son, officers told WVIT.

Fletcher was seen jumping from the second-floor window before landing on the sidewalk, police told WTNH. He was then taken to the hospital.

Officers didn’t specify to news outlets what led to the stabbing.

Fletcher was charged with two counts of murder, two counts of murder with special circumstances and one count of risk of injury, police told the New Haven Register.

West Haven is about a 5-mile drive southwest of New Haven.

This story was originally published February 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM with the headline "Screams lead police to dead 19-year-old and toddler in apartment, Connecticut cops say."