Adrian Peeler, 48, was initially sentenced to 25 years in state prison for conspiracy to commit the murder of Karen Clarke and her 8-year-old son, Leroy “BJ” Brown, in January 1999.

It began in the 1990s, when the cocaine base called crack swept into New England from New York and turned parts of Bridgeport into battlegrounds between armed gangs of drug dealers. Karen Clarke ...

WATERBURY — Adrian Peeler showed no remorse at sentencing Friday for the murders of Karen Clarke and her 8-year-old son, Leroy “B.J.” Brown Jr. He refused to beg for mercy, then stopped his ...

BRIDGEPORT — On Jan. 7, 1999, Karen Clarke and her 8-year-old son ... On Friday, outgoing President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of Adrian Peeler, who was convicted in the murders of Clarke ...

told the judge Adrian Peeler could come live with him in Las Vegas. Holding up a large photograph of Clarke and B.J. during Tuesday’s hearing, Oswald Clarke, Karen Clarke’s brother ...

Adrian Peeler served a 20-year state prison sentence for murder conspiracy in the 1999 shootings of Leroy “B.J.” Brown and his mother, Karen Clarke, in Bridgeport — killings that shocked the ...

BRIDGEPORT, CT (WFSB) - A man convicted for his roles in trading cocaine in Bridgeport, and the killing of an 8-year-old witness and his mother, was granted clemency by President Joe Biden on Monday.

But the family members of Karen Clarke, who was murdered in 1999 along with her 8-year-old son, Leroy “BJ” Brown, have said Adrian Peeler doesn’t fit that description. “He’s not a nonvio ...

A 48-year-old Connecticut drug kingpin who killed a mother and her 8-year-old son so she wouldn't testify against his brother has received a commutation as part of former President Joe Biden's ...