Authorities are trying to find a Connecticut man who they allege brutally murdered his 11-month-old daughter earlier this month in a case one police official known as “horrific and ugly.”
Christopher Francisquini, 31, is needed by the Naugatuck Police Division on costs of homicide with particular circumstance and danger of harm to a minor after his daughter, Camilla, was discovered useless of neck compressions and stab wounds on Nov. 18 in Francisquini’s residence on Millville Ave. in Naugatuck, a city about 17 miles northwest of New Haven, NBC Connecticut reported.
Police Chief C. Colin McAllister mentioned at a Nov. 21 information convention that officers found the infant dismembered, calling the homicide “horrific and ugly.”
The Naugatuck Police Division has obtained a warrant for Francisquini’s arrest and his bond has been set for $5 million, NBC Connecticut reported. The FBI is offering a $10,000 money reward for data resulting in Francisquini’s arrest and prosecution.
Data released by Naugatuck Police describes Francisquini as about 6 toes tall and weighing about 230 kilos. Police consider he was driving a grey 2006 Chevrolet Impala, which officers mentioned was deserted on I-91 in New Haven close to Exit 8 shortly after the homicide, NBC Connecticut.
Francisquini is believed to have been final seen on Nov. 18, when police say surveillance footage captured him strolling down Quinnipiac Ave. in New Haven.
Authorities ask anybody with data concerning his whereabouts to contact Naugatuck Police at 203-729-5221 or the confidential tip line at 203-720-1010. Police urged members of the general public to not method Francisquini in the event that they see him.
McAllister mentioned on the information convention that police arrived on the grisly scene of the homicide after somebody in the home known as 911 to report that Camilla was useless.
Francisquini, who McAllister mentioned has an “intensive felony historical past,” was out on particular parole when he allegedly dedicated the crime and was carrying a court-ordered monitoring system that was allegedly reduce off the day of the alleged homicide, the police chief mentioned.
Court docket information present that Francisquini was sentenced to 10 years in jail and 10 years on particular parole on a first-degree felony assault cost in 2013. He was additionally arrested on a number of different costs since then, together with on a misdemeanor cost of interfering with an officer earlier this 12 months, for which he was sentenced to unconditional discharge.
It was not instantly clear how a lot jail time Francisquini truly served.
McAllister added that Francisquini and Camilla’s organic mom have been in a dispute in Waterbury, a metropolis about six miles north of Naugatuck, the morning of the alleged homicide. The police chief mentioned authorities consider Camilla was killed earlier than that dispute.
Camilla was laid to relaxation in a personal ceremony Saturday “surrounded by her household and family members,” Naugatuck Police posted on social media, together with a photograph of Camilla.
“We acknowledge {that a} loss equivalent to this has a profound impression on each our officers and our group,” the division’s publish mentioned.
