Psychopathic Jared Ravizza is the prime suspect in the murders of his roommate and her dog, who were discovered by police during a stabbing incident in Massachusetts on Saturday afternoon.
Connecticut State Police confirms Bruce Feldman, 70, of West Hartford, was found dead Saturday at the Deep River vacation home he had recently shared with Ravizza.
They also confirmed that 26-year-old Ravizza had been with Bruce earlier that day and found his belongings at the scene. Local residents told The Post that police were called to a disturbance on Saturday and discovered Feldman’s body.
By then, Ravizza had fled to Massachusetts, where he was arrested later that same day after stabbing four children at a Massachusetts movie theater and two at a McDonald’s.
“I asked the police if it was safe and they told me the culprit was out of state and they’d already caught him,” said Charlie Brashears, 54, a cybersecurity consultant who lives next door.
“The police asked me to identify the Porsche Macan that had been involved in the accident. Sure enough, it was a car that had been travelling to and from here.”
Connecticut State Police confirmed Tuesday that the investigation into the Deep River death remains ongoing and that criminal charges are pending against Ravizza.
Bruce’s family are shocked and heartbroken by the news of his sudden passing.
“This whole thing is just a shock to me. We’ve been together for a really long time,” his partner, Julie Feldman, of West Hartford, told The Washington Post as she fought back tears.
It’s unclear how Feldman and Ravizza met and ended up staying at the home together, but locals say the pair stayed there for two to three weeks.
Brashears told The Post that Feldman once described himself as Ravizza’s friend and then his father, adding that he had a gray poodle named Lily and another black dog that he believes Ravizza killed.
“My understanding is that he stabbed the dog to death,” Brashears said.
“Bruce was a strange guy. Jared was obviously [mental health] break.”
Feldman allegedly got into an argument with the residents on Saturday after two neighbors spotted him sitting on the porch of his Merriwald Lane home with one of his dogs running around, Brashears said.
Feldman left the scene after the women threatened to call police on him for trespassing, but authorities said an unnamed suspect threw a shovel through Feldman’s front window at about 3:36 p.m.
Officers investigating the incident were taken to Feldman and Ravizza’s home, where they found a horrific scene.
Another neighbor, Joe Osterling, identified Ravizza as the man who threw a shovel at the women’s house and suggested that this incident may have triggered Saturday’s bloody incident.
“I don’t know if it was before or after he killed Bruce, but that’s what started it all,” Osterling told the Post. “Then he left here and went to the movie theater.”
Connecticut State Police had been searching for Ravizza, who was arrested three hours later after he allegedly stabbed four girls, ages 9 to 17, at the Braintree AMC Theater and then drove to a McDonald’s in Plymouth, where he stabbed two employees with a knife.
Police say the victim was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
Ravizza was indicted on charges in the stabbing incident Tuesday morning, but has not yet faced any charges in connection to the Connecticut murders.
Authorities said the investigation into Feldman’s murder remains ongoing and criminal charges were still pending as of Tuesday afternoon. Police did not comment on what happened to Feldman’s dog.
Ravizza’s lawyer could not immediately be reached for comment.
