A few minutes later Adrain Peeler showed up (someone else was driving the car) Josephine Lee walked across the street and knocked at the door while Adrain stood off to the side.The door opened he rushed in shooting B.J in the back on the stairs. The story is that Josephine Lee who had lived across the street from Clarke in Bridgeport saw her comings and going and was friends with the Peelers.Josephine Lee was a known prostitute and known crack user.She called them and let them know that Clarke had just gotten home. The laws have have changed since then.Karen actually got tired of all the mess and told the State that they didn’t want to testify anymore and a few days later was gun down in her home with her son. They claim at the time funds had been cut. According to records while he was on trail for Snead’s murder ,he made plans to kill both mother and son.B.J who were the states leading witness for this shooting that had happened months before hand.At the time of their death Connecticut did not put them in the witness protection program. So they were planning on using B.J, a child for this. He was a witness to a shooting almost a year before hand, Snead own son who was in the car also refused to speak on his fathers death nor was willing to testify. While facing the trial for the death of Snead.The State of Connecticut wanted to use B.J to testify against Peeler for the shooting that killed Snead. This time he held on $900,000 bail.He made bail and was placed under house arrest with an ankle monitor. Russel Peeler was re-arrested for his murder. Rudolph Snead 9 months later on May 29, 1998, was gunned down in a barbershop on Boston Ave in Bridgeport ,Ct.By a masked gunman. Mr Peeler was arrested a few days later on attempted murder charges and was held on bail .He made bail.While Russell was going to court for this. Mr Snead drove himself to the local hospital ,where he said that Peeler was the shooter.The police at the time did not interview the children. It all started when Russell was accused of trying to gun down Rudolph Snead Jr in 1997 on a highway entrance ramp in Bridgeport. 4 2013 for the third trial of convicted murder Russell Peeler in Bridgeport,Ct.I’m not sure after all this time how he would even be able to get an in-parcel jury who lives in Fairfield County.Russell peeler was convicted and sentenced to Connecticut’s death penalty for the murder’s of Karen Clarke and her son Leroy “B.J.” Brown Jr (8) in 1998.Russell was not the trigger man.His brother Adrian Peeler was the shooter and was sentenced to only 20 yrs for their deaths.
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