Conn. investigator: Home invasion suspects exchanged text messages hours before fatal attacks
By APThursday, September 23, 2010
Cop: Home invasion suspects texted hours before
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — An investigator says two Connecticut men charged with killing a woman and her two daughters in a 2007 home invasion exchanged text messages hours before in which one said he had to put his own child to bed.
State police investigator John Farnham testified Thursday in the trial of Steven Hayes. He said Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky (koh-mih-sar-JEV’-skee), texted each other the evening of July 22, hours before the attacks in Cheshire.
Farnham said Hayes messaged Komisarjevsky that he was “chomping at the bit to get started.” Komisarjevsky responded: “Putting kid to bed. Hold your horses.” Komisarjevsky has a young daughter.
Prosecutors say Komisarjevsky spotted Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters at a supermarket on July 22 and followed them home, then returned with Hayes early the next day to rob the family. Komisarjevsky is awaiting trial.
