DC Fugitive Wanted for Murder Arrested in CT

New Haven, CT - The U.S. Marshals and Middletown Police Department on Tuesday arrested in Middletown a man wanted in Washington, D.C., for a Feb. 2 incident in which a woman was shot and killed in the 3100 block of 16th Street Northwest.

After Tyjuan Bazemore, 35, was identified as the suspect, the D.C. Superior Court issued an arrest warrant Feb. 5 for him, and the fugitive case was assigned to the USMS.  

USMS investigators in Washington developed information that Bazemore had fled to Connecticut and sent a collateral lead to the USMS Connecticut Violent Crimes Fugitive Task Force who found Bazemore and arrested him in the 100 block of Rose Circle in Middletown.  

Bazemore was taken into custody, transported to the Hartford federal courthouse and charged with second-degree murder while armed.

He will be held in Hartford pending extradition to Washington. 

Since the inception of the U.S. Marshals – Connecticut Violent Fugitive Task Force in 1999, these partnerships have resulted in over 11,046 arrests. The task force’s objective is to seek out and arrest violent fugitives and sexual predators. Membership agencies include Hartford, Bridgeport, Norwalk, Naugatuck and Waterbury Police Departments and Homeland Security Investigations. These arrests have ranged in seriousness from murder, assault, unregistered sex offenders, probation and parole violations and numerous other serious offenses. Nationally the U.S. Marshals Service fugitive programs are carried out with local law enforcement in 94 district offices, 85 local fugitive task forces, eight regional task forces, as well as a growing network of offices in foreign countries.