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Husband Charged with Murder of Wife in Guilford

Guilford police have arrested Robert Faison, who is charged with the July 22 murder of his wife, 43 year-old Lindsey Hopkins at at her home in the Quonnipaug Hills condominiums. Faison, 45, of West Haven, was identified as a suspect and on July 30 located and taken into and remained in custody on a violation of probation warrant.

The killing, the first reported in Guilford in about 20 years, was discovered on July 22 when Guilford Police and Fire personnel responded to a welfare check on Hopkins, a resident at 61 Mohawk Trail. Upon arrival officers found Hopkins suffering from obvious injuries, according to a Guilford Police Department release; the Guilford Fire Department pronounced the victim deceased at the scene.

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner found Hopkins died of blunt force trauma and labeled the death a homicide.

Guilford Police personnel working with the Connecticut State Police Major Crime Squad and New York City Police Department located Faison at a homeless shelter in New York City, where he was taken into custody for an outstanding Connecticut violation of probation warrant, then extradited on Aug. 11 to Connecticut, where he has since remained in custody.

Faison faces a nurder charge and is currently being held on a $2 million bond.

The Guilford Police Department worked with the Connecticut State Police, New York City Police Department and New York District Attorney’s Office, Connecticut State Forensic Laboratory, New Haven Police Department, Waterbury Police Department, Bridgeport Police Department, Madison Police Department, MTA Police Department, FBI, USSS/STCIG, Connecticut and New York departments of corrections, and the New Haven State’s Attomey’s Office to developed facts and evidence linking Faison to the crime.