February 10, 2010 – 7:12 PM
Yesterday, the NY Times had a piece about the flurry of unusual and tragic events in our very own Middletown, CT. The Times offers the tragic Broad Street shooting last May, the September arrest of Raymond Clark III for the murder of a Yale student, and the recent power plant explosion as examples of Middletown [...]
December 2, 2009 – 4:25 PM
Last spring, in the immediate aftermath of the Broad Street shooting, the Middletown Police provided the Wes Public Affairs office with a photo of the suspect, Stephen Morgan…and we all noted how it looked nothing like the man in the surveillance camera footage.
After some finger-pointing between Wes and MPD, it was discovered that the initial [...]
October 18, 2009 – 5:25 PM
New details about the Johanna Justin-Jinich case from the Hartford Courant probably won’t change what anyone thinks about what happened last May. But if you’re interested in Stephen Morgan’s Internet search history, and how Johanna was aware of him being a problem long before her death, read on.
According to e-mails Johanna had been sending some [...]
September 14, 2009 – 9:18 PM
It seems only natural, now that the missing Yale student case is a confirmed homicide, that reporters would come to Wesleyan looking for a story about how sad this makes us in light of what happened last semester. And they did, earlier today.
Here’s the result, from Eyewitness News Channel 3:
Students at Wesleyan University are now [...]
September 12, 2009 – 9:39 AM
Stephen Morgan, the accused killer of Johanna Justin-Jinich ‘10, appeared in court last Wednesday and pleaded not guilty on all three charges leveled against him: murder, intimidation based on bigotry, and carrying an unlicensed pistol.
However, according to the Middletown Press, the case will be continued to October 20th while evidence related to the crime is processed:
Items [...]
Before his attack on Johanna Justin-Jinich, killer Stephen Morgan made jarring comments in his journal about targeting Jews and Wesleyan students in general, which made an already terrible incident even more unsettling.
American Jewish newspaper The Forward explores his conflation of Wesleyan students, Jews, and Justin-Jinich, and talks about Jewish identity at Wesleyan in the wake [...]
According to the Hartford Courant, Stephen Morgan’s attorney Richard Brown asked for and received a continuance “so that he could have more time to discuss the pros and cons of a probable cause hearing with his client.” The next court date is set for June 9.
It also looks like his bail will remain at [...]
The Courant took note of the Wesleyan administration’s quick response to the campus security crisis last week, including the campus lockdown and rapid communications, which may have prevented it from escalating into a much more serious situation like at Virginia Tech two years ago.
The federal Higher Education Opportunity Act passed last year required all colleges [...]
The lawyer of alleged murderer Stephen Morgan is calling his client’s $15 million bail excessive and plans to seek to lower Morgan’s bail when he’s next in court on May 19, reports the Hartford Courant:
Morgan, [defense lawyer Richard] Brown said, has no prior convictions, is not a flight risk and the evidence shows there were [...]
[ May 14, 2009; 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM. ] President Roth has announced a memorial service to be held this week for Johanna Justin-Jinich ’10:
I invite you to join with Johanna’s family, friends, and teachers for a celebration of her life and learning at Wesleyan. Johanna’s friends ask that you wear bright colors if you are able to attend.
Written memories or thoughts of Johanna [...]
Like many alumns, former Argus writer Eric Lach ‘08 has been thinking about Wesleyan a lot in the past few days. He wrote a short piece for the New Yorker’s News Desk blog about being connected to the campus tragedy and kept up-to-date with all the coverage on Wesleying, the ACB, Facebook, and President Roth’s [...]
Wednesday’s tragedy has led the administration to implement several changes regarding final exams, library hours, and the closure of student housing.
According to President Roth, “Provost Joseph Bruno sent an email to faculty describing changes to our normal exam schedule and asking for great flexibility from our professors.” Exams that had been scheduled for Monday, May [...]
Johanna Justin-Jinich ’10 was remembered in a memorial vigil this afternoon. At least several hundred students, faculty, staff, and community members came together in a giant circle behind Usdan to grieve and mourn Johanna’s death.
Thoughts of Johanna also figured prominently at Middletown’s annual Day of Prayer ceremony:
Residents and officials joined in council chambers in city hall for [...]
Someone on the Anonymous Confession Board started a thread called “Thanks” and started it off by saying:
Did someone give you their last box of wheat thins so you could have dinner on tuesday night? What about a hug after your parents called in tears? Have an important conversation with someone on your hall you never [...]
After surrendering to Meriden police late last night, Stephen Morgan—the alleged murderer of Johanna Justin-Jinich ’10 and the subject of an intense nationwide search centered in Middletown—is behind bars, facing bail set at $10 million. He is scheduled to appear today at Middlesex Superior Court on Court Street, where he is to be charged with [...]
From President Roth at 10:47 pm:
We have received confirmation from the Middletown Police Department that Stephen Morgan, the suspect in the recent shooting at the Red and Black Café, has been apprehended. The Wesleyan community is grateful for the work of the law enforcement agencies involved in this process. We are all breathing a little [...]
WFSB is reporting:
The Boulder, Colo., man suspected in the fatal shooting of a 21-year-old Wesleyan University student has turned himself in to police in Meriden, sources said Thursday night.
Police in Middletown were called to pick up the suspect, 29-year-old Stephen Morgan. He was in their custody as of 10 p.m.
The Meriden Record Journal is [...]
The New York Times just posted a more extended article about the events yesterday, with some new details about Morgan’s past. Here is an excerpt:
The police said he did not appear to have a criminal history. Public records indicate that he lived in Fairfax County, Va., in 2000 and was in Honolulu from September [...]
How have you been coping, Wesleyan? A ton of people are going home today, or already have, and the campus is eerily quiet. And not many of you are in the mood for finals preparation.
Because I barely spoke to anyone outside my circle of friends today, here is a cobbling together of Wes student reactions [...]
There will be a memorial vigil for Johanna Justin-Jinich tomorrow afternoon:
Tomorrow at 1 p.m., two days after the shooting that took the life of Johanna Justin-Jinich, Wesleyan will hold a brief memorial vigil in the Huss Courtyard behind the Usdan Center. There will be time for Johanna’s friends and family to plan other ceremonies at [...]
This is superfluous to announce at this point, but all campus events are canceled this weekend until further notice, including the Senior Thesis Film screenings. No events calendar, no weekend update.
Stay in, talk to your friends and family. Maybe watch a movie. In light of the most recent news, be glad you’re safe.
[EDIT 7:35 pm]
Situation [...]
The Associated Press (in a wire report obtained through Danbury’s News-Times) is reporting that the family of Stephen Morgan, alleged murderer of Johanna Justin-Jinich ’10, is urging him to turn himself in:
Stephen Morgan’s family said in a statement at their Marblehead, Mass. home on Thursday that they are “shocked and sickened” by the slaying of [...]
The Hartford Courant has the most in-depth information about the Broad Street shooting yet, with a chilling explanation of exactly why we’re currently in lockdown – police found a journal in Morgan’s car which detailed his intention to murder Justin-Jinich, and then go on a killing spree at Wesleyan.
Which means that the administration handled the [...]
Wesleyan students, please check your e-mail for details about dinner plans, in case you haven’t already. I don’t think these dinner plans should be public info. Just in case.
Campus is still locked down. Recent news – apparently students in the Bayit have been relocated because of concerns about Morgan targeting the Jewish community.
Johanna Justin Jinich also took classes with her killer two summers ago at NYU, where she filed a harassment complaint against Morgan after repeated unwanted texts and phone calls. From the [...]
According to CNN, the Middletown police have searched the gunman’s motel room, which led to the concerns that he is targeting Wesleyan and/or its Jewish community:
Concern for the Wesleyan community and the Jewish community “developed out of evidence that the police may have gotten when they executed search warrants on his car, on the motel [...]
We’ve been having some serious bandwidth issues over the past two days, due to the massive amount of traffic we’ve been getting in response to yesterday’s events and the current situation on campus.
For future reference, if Wesleying.org doesn’t load for you anytime, check Wesleying-updates at Blogger, where new posts to this site will also be [...]
The original photo sent out of Stephen Morgan, with glasses and a blue background, was incorrect, according to WTNH. According to the report, the following photo, taken in May 2007, is a correct image:
“It should be noted that Mr. Morgan was last seen with thicker facial hair than is depicted in the photo, and had [...]
This message just came in from Corrie Kerr in Media Relations:
I wanted to let you know that this page
http://www.wesleyan.edu/newsrel/security/ will always have the latest information.
Students should rely on the Connect-ED system to update them as it has.
If they need to update/correct their email addresses or phone numbers for the alert system, they should do so.
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