Crime & Safety

Bloomfield Man Rejects Plea Deal in Murder of Manchester Convenience Store Clerk

A Bloomfield man facing charges of murder and attempt to commit first-degree robbery for the shooting death of a clerk at the Super Convenience Store at 469 Hartford Rd. in Manchester on May 22, 2011, rejected a plea deal for lesser charges on Friday, June 28, 2013, according to the Hartford Courant

The man, Maurice Dixon, told a Hartford Superior Court judge that he understood the severity of the charges against him, according to the Courant, but that he wanted to take his case to court. 

Police say that Dixon drove to the Super Convenience Store that night for an attempted robbery with Charles Wilson, then waited to drive Wilson away after he shot the clerk in the head. 

Wilson is serving a 55 year prison sentence for the death of the clerk, Aurang Zaib Sahi, as well the shooting death of a 74-year old man outside a package store on Albany Avenue in Hartford  on May 30, 2011. Wilson, now 20, was sentenced in October of last year, and is serving his sentence at the Cheshire Correctional Institute. 

The date of Dixon's trial is still pending. 


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