{"id":212621,"date":"2026-04-28T14:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212621\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T14:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:03:12","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-arrest-made-in-fatal-shooting-in-stratford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212621\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Arrest Made In Fatal Shooting In Stratford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Stratford police arrested a suspect in connection with a <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/connecticut.news12.com\/one-person-found-dead-after-late-night-incident-in-stratford\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">homicide that occurred on April 4 on Woodstock Avenue<\/a>. Officers responded at approximately 11:40 p.m. that night after receiving a report of a disturbance.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say Paul T. Balzarano died after suffering multiple gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Robert Kopasz, 22, was arrested Tuesday and charged with murder by firearm, illegal possession of an assault weapon without a certificate, Illegal violation of fire rate enhancement, illegal possession of a high\u2011capacity magazine, and unlawful discharge of a firearm.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Kopasz was issued a court date Tuesday and is being held on a $1.5 million court\u2011set bond.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police seized an American Tactical Omni Hybrid semi\u2011automatic multi\u2011caliber rifle and a Glock 22 .40\u2011caliber pistol equipped with an illegal after\u2011market switch that allows the firearm to be fired fully automatic.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Anyone with information is asked to contact Det. Marc Halper at 203\u2011385\u20114126 or mhalper@townofstratford.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stratford police arrested a suspect in connection with a homicide that occurred on April 4 on Woodstock Avenue.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-212621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}