Police Arrest Accomplice in Super Convenience Store Murder

Manchester Police made a second arrest in the May 22 on Hartford Road Friday, announcing that a 22-year-old Bloomfield man had been charged as an accomplice to the crime.

Police say that Maurice Dixon, a Bloomfield resident, drove to the Super Convenience Store that night for an attempted robbery, then waited to drive Wilson away after the shooting.

Dixon is charged with felony murder and first-degree robbery/criminal attempt. He is being held on a $1 million bond and is due in Manchester Superior Court on Friday.

Wilson, an 18-year-old Hartford resident who is facing murder charges in Hartford for a May 30 shooting murder there, was charged with felony murder, murder, and criminal attempt/robbery for the May 22 death of at the Super Convenience Store at 469 Hartford Rd. in Manchester on June 21. He was charged with the new offenses while in court in Hartford awaiting arraignment on the first set of murder charges.

Wilson is being held on a combined $4.25 million bond for both murders at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield and is next scheduled to appear in court on Aug. 15.