![]() ![]() Two of her grandsons became crack dealers.I don't know about you but if I'm picking an actor to play Sal DiNardo it's gotta be Chazz Palminteri. Two of her daughters became police officers. She had come to court each day during trial, bringing her grandson a fresh shirt, clean suit and a bag of Gummi Bears to munch on.Ībiding by her grandson’s wishes, she left court without ever speaking to the judge, without offering her perspective on how her kin reacted so differently to the push and pull of urban life. Surrounded by marshals and correction officers, Adrian Peeler quickly was led away, leaving behind his 67-year-old maternal grandmother, Ruby Fountain. “Anything else need to be said?” O’Keefe asked. The judge then politely asked Peeler to stand and passed sentence of 20 years, to be served consecutive to the drug sentence. “But he won’t, because you got involved in a scheme to kill him.” “The little boy should be getting ready for a summer of Little League baseball, swimming in a lake or riding a bike,” O’Keefe said. O’Keefe said the victims were innocents, a mother and child whose only offense was to inconvenience a drug ring. “Anyone who would willingly get involved in an offense of this nature is a monster.” “But he’s right up there,” the judge said. O’Keefe allowed that Peeler might not be the worst defendant to ever stand before him. His client should not be confused with Russell Peeler, nor should he be considered the “worst of the worst,” Culligan said. Patrick Culligan, Peeler’s public defender, said Peeler’s role in the conspiracy was unclear, given the evidence and jury’s verdict. Peeler has no known work history, other than dealing crack. Peeler’s life seems to be him graduating high school eighth from the bottom of his class,” Benedict said. His mother, who died of cancer in 1993, was a police officer, as is an aunt. “So they came up with a solution, and that was murder the witness.”īenedict told O’Keefe that Adrian Peeler has no redeeming quality, despite being raised by two parents who provided a middle-class life in North Bridgeport. “That was in jeopardy” in 1999 from Russell Peeler’s impending trial in Snead’s death, Benedict said. The brothers were making at least $10,000 a week selling crack. ![]() Police and prosecutors believe that Russell Peeler planned the murders of Clarke and B.J., and that Adrian Peeler carried them out. He also is serving a life sentence on federal drug charges and 105 years for the murder of Snead. Russell Peeler was convicted last year on murder, capital felony and conspiracy charges in the double murder and sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. Police found the phone off the hook, lying near her body. Clarke made it to a bedroom, where she apparently was trying to call for help. was found face down at the top of the stairs. 7, 1999, a month before the boy was to testify against Russell Peeler in the murder of Rudolph Snead Jr., who was Clarke’s boyfriend and Russell Peeler’s drug associate.Ĭlarke’s and B.J.’s killer burst in on them as they returned from grocery shopping, shot Clarke as she stood near the front door and then chased mother and child to the second floor of Clarke’s duplex.ī.J. were shot to death in their Bridgeport home on Jan. ![]() “I know in my heart what this defendant did,” O’Keefe said, leaning forward as he stared directly at Peeler. ![]()
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