The former boyfriend of a woman killed in a bombing at an Orange County medical building was arrested following a search Wednesday at his home in Long Beach, California.

Stephen Beal, 59, of Long Beach, was arrested on suspicion of being in possession of an unregistered destructive device. Beal is not being charged in connection with the explosion that killed Ildiko Krajnyak, 48, and injured three others at a medical building in Aliso Viejo, the FBI said Thursday in a statement.

Details about where Beal was arrested were not immediately available.

The search Wednesday involving FBI agents and a bomb squad was in connection with the explosion, the FBI confirmed.

"During the course of the investigation into the May 15 explosion in Aliso Viejo, investigators found a destructive device during the service of a search warrant at a Long Beach residence," the FBI said in a statement. 

Beal's neighbors, who told NBC4 the he is a Krajnyak's former boyfriend, were told to keep a safe distance away from the Long Beach property as bomb squad technicians searched the home. Neighbors said that they've seen the owner of the home building large rockets in the driveway, which he launches out in the desert.

Another search linked to the deadly blast was carried out at Krajnyak's home in Orange County's Trabuco Canyon area. She was a beautician who owned a day spa called Magyar Kozmetika inside the building at 11 Mareblu in Aliso Viejo. 

"There are some components we have located at the scene that are inconsistent with what one might expect to find at this business,"  said Paul Delacourt, assistant director in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles field office.

He said those items were being shipped to the FBI's crime lab for analysis.

No arrested have been made in the bombing.

Investigators confirmed Wednesday they do not believe the medical building blast "was an accident" and that some type of explosive device was used. They do not know how the device arrived at the building.

Beal is expected to appear in court in Santa Ana Thursday morning. More details are expected after a federal criminal complaint is filed later Thursday.

Romaine lettuce grown near Yuma, Arizona, is believed to have sickened 172 people in 32 states, killing one person, but it's unlikely to do so any more, NBC News reported.

Any romaine lettuce that's now in stores is very likely not from the Yuma region, meaning it's unlikely to carry the E. coli bacteria linked to the outbreak, according to an update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday.

More cases may still be reported but the lettuce has a 21-day shelf life and the lettuce's harvest season in Arizona ended in mid-April.

"The most recent illnesses reported to CDC started when romaine lettuce from the Yuma growing region was likely still available in stores, restaurants, and in peoples’ homes," according to the CDC update.

Bitten by a shark while swimming off the coast of South Carolina Sunday, a 10-year-old boy is recovering at home from what his family described as the “serious” and “frightening” experience.

Jei Turrell was playing in waist-deep water off Hilton Head when the shark attacked his right forearm. In a "Today" show interview aired Thursday, Jei said the animal is believed to have been a 4- to 5-foot blacktip shark. 

His mother, Tonya Turrell, recalled that “Jei came running out of the water screaming, 'Shark, shark.'” While she initially thought her son was “crying wolf,” Tonya was soon able to see Jei was telling the truth. 

“I saw blood dripping off of his arm, and I realized he wasn’t messing around,” she said. 

Tonya Turrell said she “knew it was serious” after a helicopter transported Jei to a Savannah hospital about 40 miles away. There he underwent two hours of surgery. 

“I don’t think I’ve ever experienced anything as frightening,” said the mother, who had sent out a call on Facebook for prayers for Jei. “Your thoughts get away from you, and I felt like I was going crazy. 

Jei remembered seeing his mother "trying to hide" her fear, "but I could feel her getting scared."

With his arteries intact and no serious nerve damage, Jei pulled through. And he was sure to thank everyone who helped him get better at the hospital.

“Even when you’re bit by a shark you still gotta be polite,” he said.

Back at home, Tonya Turrell laughed as she said she’s going to be even more cautious with her son going forward.

“You thought I was over-protective before?” she said to Jei. “It’s gonna get way worse.” 

Jei’s Sunday afternoon attack was the first reported shark bite of 2018 on Hilton Head Island, according to Hilton Head Island Shore Beach Service. In 2017, there were 10 confirmed shark attacks in South Carolina. Of those, eight were on Hilton Head Island.

There have also been recent, frequent water evacuations in the Hilton Head Island area. The evacuations happen almost daily during the summer season for shark sightings or lightning strikes, though most are to bring in swimmers venturing too far out, according to the beach service.

Several days before Jei was bitten, there were evacuations in the late morning and early afternoon after a shark was spotted swimming back and forth in shallow water in the area.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

New Haven police are searching for a man they refer to as “sexual deviant” who has been touching people inappropriately and masturbating in public. 

Police said women in New Haven’s East Rock neighborhood have recently been targeted and have not been physically harmed. 

The incidents have been on Pearl Street, north to Farnum Drive and from Foster Street west to Livingston Street. 

New Haven and Yale University Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying the man, who appears to be between 20 and 40. Police said he’s been seen on foot and on a bicycle. 

Anyone with information is asked to call police at 203-946-6316 or Text-A-Tip. Text “NHPD plus your message” to 274637 (CRIMES) Calls may be made anonymously.

Just two weeks before Starbucks is set to close thousands of locations for "racial-bias education," for its employees, the coffee company is once again facing scrutiny after a barista at a store in La Cañada Flintridge, California, targeted a Hispanic customer with a racial slur.

Pedro, who asked not to be identified by his last name, ordered two coffees from the cafe and received his order with the word "beaner" on both cups in place of his name, he told NBC4's sister station, Telemundo 52.

"It's an offensive word used towards Latinos," he said.

Pedro does not believe the slur could have been written by accident because the barista called his name once his order was ready.

In an effort to compensate the experience, the location offered Pedro a $50 gift card.

"I didn't accept it because it’s like an insult overall," he said.

In a statement, the coffee chain said it is working to remedy the incident.

"This is not the experience that we want for our clients," the statement said. "We asked for his forgiveness and we are working to correct this. Also, we are investigating the incident to ensure this will not be repeated."

"That's clearly really racist," Starbucks customer Ana Garcia said outside the store when told about what happened. "What can I tell you? It's sad to hear that, to be honest."

Starbucks has been facing nationwide outrage after viral cellphone video showed two Black men at one of its locations in Philadelphia being arrested by police. The two men, Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson, were waiting for a business meeting they scheduled at the store.

Soon after their arrival, Nelson asked the cafe’s manager if he could use the restroom but was declined because he had not made a purchase. Minutes after the interaction, police arrived after being summoned by the manager.

The barista believed to be responsible for writing the slur at the La Cañada Flintridge location is said to be in her 20s.

Pedro is expecting to meet with one of the location's employees on Thursday and although he is unsure of what will come of the interaction, he hopes the barista will face serious consequences.

Starbucks has said it plans to close all of its stores on May 29 for racial-bias training. 

The Tony award-winning Broadway actress, whose daughter was mowed down and killed in a Brooklyn crosswalk, has lost the baby she was carrying at the time of the crash, according to her lawyer.

Ruthie Ann Miles and her husband Jonathan Blumenstein were expecting a baby girl this month.

“At the time of the crash Ruthie was pregnant and was severely injured. This past Friday Ruthie and Jonathan lost their baby, Sophia Rosemary Wong Blumenstein,” Ben Rubinowitz said in an issued statement. “The pain suffered by Ruthie and Jonathan is nearly impossible to fathom. As you might imagine, they are overwhelmed by the sadness of the deaths of their children.”

Miles was walking with her friend and their two young children in Park Slope on March 5 when a 44-year-old woman blew through a red light and plowed into the group, killing both children — Miles’ 4-year-old daughter, Abigail, and the friend's 1-year-old son, Joshua.

Dorothy Bruns, the driver that blew through the red light into the group, was indicted in connection with the case.

Bruns was arrested at her Staten Island home May 3 on a 10-count indictment charging her with manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, assault and other crimes in the violent March 5 crash at Ninth Street and Fifth Avenue that killed 4-year-old Abigail Blumenstein and 1-year-old Joshua Lew.

Though Rubinowitz said it would be up to the district attorney to decide, according to the state statute, prosecutors might not be able to pursue additional charges in the case because state laws regarding homicide apply after a baby is born.

Bruns had run through a red light just before slamming into the children, the pregnant Miles (given name Ruthie Ann Blumenstein) and Joshua's mother, Lauren Lew, in the crosswalk. All four were found on the pavement with varying degrees of injuries. Cops later learned a fifth pedestrian, a 46-year-old man, had also been hit and had been taken to the hospital in stable condition.

Bruns told police at the time she had medical issues -- and though her license had been suspended she had not been criminally charged in the case until now. Prosecutors said Thursday that she had in fact suffered a seizure at the time of the collision, and had been driving in direct defiance of a doctor's orders following a hospitalization less than two months prior. That hospitalization stemmed from yet another car crash -- that time into a parked vehicle.

Deaths from school bus crashes like the tragedy in New Jersey on Thursday are rare, accounting for less than one percent of the country's yearly motor vehicle fatalities, according to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration.

School buses are the most regulated vehicles on the road, and students are 70 times more likely to get to school safely aboard a bus than in a car, according to the administration. The buses are designed to be safer than passenger vehicles.

From 2007 to 2016, there were 320,874 fatal motor vehicle crashes, of which 1,147 or 0.4 percent were school-transportation-related, data from the National Center for Statistics and Analysis show.

On Thursday, at least one student and a chaperone were killed when a school bus collided with a dump truck on Interstate 80 in New Jersey.

The accident, in Mount Olive Township, ripped the undercarriage off the bus from East Brook Middle School in Paramus, and left it on its side in the median. Information on other injuries wasn’t immediately available although the nearby Morristown Medical Center confirmed that it was receiving patients.

The public school has about 650 students in the fifth through eighth grades.

School-transportation related crashes — defined as involving a school bus or another bus functioning as one — killed 1,282 people of all ages from 2007 to 2016, according to a January 2018 report from National Center for Statistics and Analysis. That’s an average of 128 fatalities each year.

Of the 281 school-aged children who were killed, 58 were in school transportation vehicles, 116 were in other vehicles, 98 were pedestrians, eight were bicyclists and one was another non-occupant.

Among the safety features that school buses provide: flashing red lights, rollover protection, protective seating, high crush standards and stop-sign arms. 

One of the major debates over the years has been whether school buses should be required to have seat belts. 

In New Jersey, all vehicles manufactured after October 1992 must be equipped with lap-type seat belts or other child restraint systems, according to the state. All school buses without seat belts that were grandfathered under the law have been out of service as of September 2013.

But there is no similar federal requirement. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration says that large school buses are designed with a different kind of safety restraint system that works "extremely well." 

Children are protected through what is known as "compartmentalization," or strong, closely-spaced seats that have energy-absorbing seat backs, according to the administration. Smaller school buses must have lap belts, shoulder belts or both.

Though fatal school bus accidents are uncommon, here are some of the deadliest over the years:

Nov. 21, 2016: A school bus driver in Chattanooga, Tennessee, ran the bus off a winding road, hit a pole and flipped into a tree, killing six children. The driver, who authorities said was on his phone and driving 50 miles an hour on the narrow road, was found guilty of numerous charges, including criminally negligent homicide, according to NBC News.

Sept. 21, 1989: A Dr. Pepper delivery truck collided with a school bus carrying junior high and high school students in Alton, Texas. Twenty-one students between the ages of 12 and 18 died when the bus went over an embankment and into a gravel pit filled with water. The driver, who according to the Houston Chronicle, missed a stop sign, was later acquitted of criminally negligent homicide charges.

May 21, 1976: A bus carrying a high school a cappella choir from Yuba City High School in the Sacramento Valley broke through a guardrail on a freeway off-ramp near Martinez, California, fell 30 feet and landed upside down with the roof crushed. Twenty-eight students and an adult chaperone were killed. The students were traveling to Miranda High School in Orinda, California, for a performance.

Feb. 28, 1958: A bus taking elementary and high school students to a school in Prestonburg, Kentucky, hit the back of a truck on U.S. Route 23, went down an embankment into the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River and was swept away. Twenty-six students and the bus driver drowned.

The bus and train fare increases that were scheduled to go into effect on July have been canceled, according to the governor and commissioner of the state Department of Transportation. The service reductions have been canceled as well. 

A statement from Gov. Dannel Malloy and Commissioner James Redeker said this is because the budget adjustment bill went into effect. 

“I am relieved that we were able to avoid drastic fare increases and disruptive service reductions. This is welcome news to the thousands of Connecticut commuters who utilize our buses and trains every day,” Malloy said in a statement. 

He added that the state will need to find new, long-term funding sources to replace “dwindling gas tax revenues.” 

The fare for rail commuters was supposed to go up 10 percent, while the fare for bus riders was supposed to go up 14 percent. 

The statement from Malloy’s office said the budget the general assembly passed and he signed “accelerated the transfer of motor vehicle sales tax revenues from the General Fund to the “Special Transportation Fund) beginning this year, stabilizing the STF in the short-term.” 

A student and adult chaperone are dead after a full-size school bus collided with a dump truck on a major New Jersey highway Thursday, a violent accident that ripped the undercarriage completely off the bus and left it demolished on its side in the median, sources with knowledge of the investigation tell News 4.

Many injuries have been reported. An unknown number of middle school students were on board the school bus at the time of the 10:20 a.m. crash on Route 80 near exit 25 in Mount Olive Township, according to the New Jersey State Police. Cadaver dogs were later seen searching the nearby woods.

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The bus came from East Brook Middle School in Paramus, a public school serving roughly 650 students in grades 5-8. The principal's office hung up the phone when News 4 called seeking comment.

The bus was part of a fifth-grade class trip to Waterloo Village, a historic site in Stanhope. Students on the other two buses taking part in the trip were told they had to leave 10 minutes after arriving because of a storm, and only learned of the accident when they arrived back at school. They were then reunited with their families.

No additional details on the children or any injuries were available. Saint Clare's Denville Hospital and Dover Hospital emergency departments have received 10 patients, a spokesperson said, though there was no immediate information on the extent of their injuries or their ages. Morristown Medical Center and Hackettstown also received patients, though it wasn't clear how many.

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Photos obtained by News 4 show the heavily damaged bus on its side in the median, surrounded by dozens of emergency and law enforcement vehicles. The front of it is barely recognizable, a mangled chunk of broken-apart machinery spread from the highway shoulder lane through the guardrail and into the grassy median, where police and first responders are seen tending to stunned children. The undercarriage, the bus wheels still attached, lays perpendicular to the overturned bus, stretching out over multiple lanes of the highway.

Manuel Absalon, a tourist from Mexico who was traveling on a New York City-bound bus from Toronto on Route 80, says he didn't see the actual collision but was struck by the aftermath. 

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"From what I saw, the red truck was destroyed, but the bus appeared worse," the 22-year-old Absalon said. "It looked like it was broken in half." 

The side of the bus says Paramus Board of Education, according to Mount Olive Township Mayor Rob Greenbaum. The Paramus transportation office declined to share information with News 4, calling the situation "upsetting." The school district's office said the superintendent is working on a statement.

A cause of the collision remains under investigation. A man at the front desk of a company connected to a license plate on the dump truck said it's not clear what happened, but he did confirm the driver left the facility Thursday morning and got into the accident. It's not clear if that driver was injured. 

Gov. Murphy has also been briefed on the situation, and tweeted "Our hearts are broken by today's tragedy," when he arrived at the scene.

A team with the New Jersey Department of Health also responded.

Route 80 is closed westbound at exit 26. Heavy delays are expected through Thursday's evening rush hour. 

Serious accidents are not uncommon in that stretch of the busy highway. From 2014-2016 there were more than 5,000 crashes on Route 80 in Morris County, resulting in 10 deaths and nearly 1,400 injuries, according to a News 4 I-Team analysis of state data. 

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A female Hartford police officer remains in critical condition after she was stabbed in the neck while responding to assist during an eviction process at an apartment building on Thursday morning, according to police.

The officer has been taken to Hartford Hospital, a trauma center, where she is undergoing surgery.

Hartford Police Chief David Rosado said police were called at 9:48 a.m. Thursday to assist with a landlord-tenant dispute at the apartment building at 5 Constitution Plaza in Hartford. There were no initial reports of a weapon and two officers were dispatched to respond.

“From there, the situation went awry,” Rosado said.

Police said the landlord-tenant dispute was over an eviction process. The female officer was the first at the scene and she tried to talk the resident into leaving the building.

She was attempting to put the woman in handcuffs when some maintenance workers heard a struggle and found the woman had the officer in a headlock and was stabbing her in the throat, police said.

“The maintenance workers were able to pull her off and subdue her,” Deputy Police Chief Brian Foley said.

Foley said those maintenance workers who rushed in to help the officer are "heroes."

Other officers responded to the scene and the suspect, a 39-year-old Hartford woman, is in custody. She was taken to the hospital to be treated for a cut to her hand and has been released into police custody.

The officer suffered severe, life-altering injuries, according to police, and she was rushed to the hospital.

Police have not released her name because they are not sure if all her family members have been notified that she is injured.

“We ask the entire Hartford community to keep the officer in their thoughts and prayers,” Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin said in a statement.

Police issued a warning on Thursday afternoon that any solicitation for donations on behalf of the injured officer is likely a scam because no Hartford police organization is actively seeking donations for her.

The Hartford police major crimes division has the scene at the apartment building at 5 Constitution Plaza locked down and police said residents will be impacted all day.

Officers are asking people to avoid the area and said traffic will be impacted for several hours.

Officials from the Connecticut State's Attorney's Office also responded to the scene and Connecticut state police said they are assisting Hartford Police.

Check back for updates.

A Pennsylvania man is accused of firing a gun out his car window at another vehicle during a road rage incident in Vernon.

Connecticut State Police arrested 40-year-old Carlos Tejeda Wednesday. According to police, Tejeda was driving on Interstate 84 in Vernon when he fired a gun at another vehicle.

No one was hurt.

Police located Tejeda and his vehicle near exit 56 in East Hartford. A gun was found in the vehicle, police said.

Tejeda was arrested and charged with criminal attempted assault, threatening, reckless endangerment, breach of peace, and firearm and traffic violations. He was held on a $100,000 bond and arraigned Wednesday. He is next scheduled to appear in court on June 4.

Twenty-five years have passed since police found the badly burned body of a woman in a lot in Bridgeport and they are hoping new tools will help identify her and solve her murder.

Police have turned to DNA and new technology and they have released images of what the woman might have looked like in hopes that someone will recognize her.

Bridgeport police found the woman’s body in a vacant lot at Lafayette Street and Railroad Avenue in the south end of Bridgeport on June 5, 1993. Her body was severely burned, and unidentifiable, according to police.

The Office of the Chief Medical examiner was able to determine the woman was likely between 25 and 35 years old and that her death was a homicide, but not who she is.

Police have now turned to Parabon NanoLabs in Virginia, which they said specializes in DNA phenotyping and predicts physical appearance and ancestry from unidentified DNA evidence.

And Snapshot depicts predictions made for the person the DNA is from, including ancestry, eye color, hair color, skin color, freckling and face shape.

“In releasing these images, our hope is that someone will recognize the person depicted in the Snapshot composite and contact us,” Bridgeport Police Captain Brian Fitzgerald, head of the Detective Bureau, said in a statement.

“Although we have some leads in this case, identifying the woman who was murdered will bring our investigators closer to determining what led to the death of this victim,” he added.

He is asking anyone who recognizes the person depicted in these images or who has information about the case to contact us at 203-576-TIPS (8477).

West Hartford police are investigating a home invasion on Hillcrest Avenue Thursday.

Capt. Michael Perruccio confirmed officers responded just before 1:30 p.m. for a report of a home invasion at 117 Hillcrest Ave. One victim was taken to the hospital as a precaution. The extent of their injuries was not immediately clear.

Police believe one suspect is involved and has since fled the scene.

More details were not immediately available.

The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information should contact West Hartford Police.

Thousands of families were still in the dark 48 hours after a powerful line of storms spawned four tornadoes in Connecticut.

In Brookfield, a macroburst with winds more than 100 miles per hour is to blame for extensive damage to many homes.

“We’re all thankful, the house can be replaced, the whole cliché but it’s true,” Paula Pascoa said.

Paula and her 20-year-old daughter Arianna were home when the macroburst moved onto their street, Skyline Drive.

“I moved in here the end of January,” Paula said.

Her home is one of many in the town to be damaged by falling trees.

“This whole place is going to get ripped out,” Paula said, “so I don’t know what I’m doing really. I’m just getting my work stuff because I’m going to a hotel.”

Paula rushed inside from doing yard work when she felt the macroburst coming.

“If I would have went down the side, I would have been crushed by the trees,” she said.

Arianna ran inside from walking their two dogs.

“They were really scared, too,” she said.

Seconds later, the two women heard a crack, Paula said.

“I don’t know what happened,” Arianna said, “but I was following my mom to the bedrooms and I got knocked down by the ceiling.”

“All of a sudden she screams cause it hit her back and she has back problems already,” Paula said, “but she’s OK.”

‘I’m really happy that she was here,” Arianna said, adding, “my back hurts a little bit I have like scratches and stuff and I was bleeding, but (I’m) better.”

Down the street, NBC Connecticut came across a crater caused by a large tree that uprooted on Tuesday, but fortunately did not fall onto the home on the property.

Jamie Worth, who is about 6-foot, said she estimates the stump is “20 feet, from the bottom, at least.”

Neither Jamie nor her mom were home during the macroburst.

“I was up in Pittsfield Massachusetts and I was watching it on the NBC,” homeowner Kathy Worth said. “I was devastated, like Jaime said, until I saw my neighbor’s house and then I was grateful because it could have been a lot worse for us here.”

In this hard-hit neighborhood, reality is setting in that it will be a long road to recovery.

“Yeah we’re hanging in,” Paula said. “We’re strong and we’re going to you know get through this.”

Paula and her daughter are staying with a neighbor down the street that just lost a car from a falling tree, but that neighbor’s house was not damaged.

Brookfield schools will again be closed on Friday.

Eversource said Thursday it hopes to complete power restoration in the hardest hit areas by Sunday afternoon. Anyone in a city or town with storm damage is advised to stay away from downed power lines – they could be re-energized.

Paul Manafort’s former son-in-law, real estate developer Jeffrey Yohai, has agreed to plead guilty in connection with a criminal investigation in Los Angeles, multiple sources familiar with the investigation said Thursday. 

Special counsel Robert Mueller and his team have been focusing for the past six months on Yohai, Manafort’s partner in four California property deals that failed and were placed in bankruptcy, NBC News reported.

Manafort’s holding company, MC Brooklyn Holdings, also bought a brownstone in Brooklyn, New York, in December 2012 for $2,995,000 that was brokered by Yohai, real estate postings online show.

Connecticut has its share of fans looking forward to the royal wedding this weekend. 

“These are all the different cups and plates,” said Elizabeth Wells as she showed off her royal commemorative collection in West Hartford.

Wells has cups, plates and even bells. It’s a royal commemorative collecting celebrating every major moment, milestone and member of the royal family.

“This is only a third of my collection, I have got tons more but I can't put it all out,” Wells said.

She has her favorites on display and is now making room for more. Wells is preparing for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to say I do. She already had the perfect cup for Saturday, picturing the royal couple.

“I just think it's great! It's just another excuse for some more cups,” said Wells.

Wells has lived in Connecticut for 30 year, but her love for the royals started while she was a child growing up in England.

“Love to go to the occasions and watch them on TV in fact, we watched the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1962 in a little black and white TV,” said Wells.

She will watch this wedding on TV as well, but other Connecticut locals made the trip to see the wedding in person.

Donna Werner from New Fairfield is a self-proclaimed royal family super fan. She is currently in England and was on the Today Show on Thursday.

When Hoda asked how long Werner had been out there she said it would be four nights by Saturday morning.

The women have dedication, because for super fans and commemorative collectors, the royal wedding is a fans and family celebration no matter where you are from.

“Oh it’s very exciting! Yes, I will be up at about five in the morning to watch it,” said Wells.

The royal wedding will air on NBC Connecticut on Saturday morning.

Four people were rushed to the hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning after running a generator in their garage, according to Brookfield police.

Police said the four people were rushed to Danbury Hospital and one of the patients when then transferred for more advanced care at an out-of-state hospital. Officials did not identify the victims.

Brookfield was one of the hardest-hit areas during Tuesday’s severe weather, and many in town remain without power due to downed trees and power lines. Police remind residents to never run generators indoors and to keep them well away from windows and doors.

Eversource reports they should have the majority of customers restored by Sunday afternoon.

There have also been chainsaw accidents in town, according to police. Authorities remind everyone to wear protective equipment and use caution when operating chainsaws.

Hartford police are investigating a shooting on Pavilion Street Thursday night.

Hartford Police Deputy Chief Brian Foley confirmed the Major Crimes Division was investigating the shooting.

More details were not immediately available.

Anyone with information should contact Lt. Cicero at 860-757-4179.

A suspect accused of a violent attack on a Hartford police officer was in the process of being evicted, according to police and court documents.

A veteran Hartford police officer was stabbed several times in the neck responding to a landlord-tenant dispute at the Spectra Boutique Apartments on Columbus Boulevard Thursday.

Hartford police have identified 39-year-old Chevoughn Augustin, a resident of the ninth floor, as the suspect.

The NBC Connecticut Troubleshooters obtained court documents that show that the building's management was attempting to evict Augustin from her apartment where she has lived since December 2017.

The legal documents, filed in Superior Court, demand Augustin vacate the property, citing allegations that she has disrupted her neighbors enjoyment of the building and landlord business operations by "wandering the common halls aimlessly very late at night, sleeping in the common room couch, confronting other residents in a hostile way in the elevators making them fear for their safety.”

The management company also alleges that she accused their staff of stealing her food and refusing to meet with them to discuss her behavior.

Augustin responded to that complaint, arguing she was facing fair housing discrimination. In court documents, she said the allegations could not be substantiated and that she's a long-serving member of the Hartford community with not only personal but excellent professional references.

The management company is denying Augustin’s claims.

Augustin was arrested after the stabbing and charged with criminal attempted murder, first-degree assault, assault on a police officer, and third-degree criminal mischief. Currently she is being held without bond.

The Hartford police officer, who has not been publicly identified at the request of her family, remains in critical but stable condition in the intensive care unit at Hartford Hospital.

A tense battle is brewing in Ansonia between the city and the school board and hundreds of thousands of dollars for education is at stake.

“My biggest fear is that I won’t have the resources that I need,” said Tamia Esson, a sophomore at Ansonia High School.

That’s why fired up students and parents packed an Ansonia tax board meeting on Thursday as the debate swirled about cuts to school funding. There’s outrage that the city’s Board of Aldermen voted to slash $600,000 from the Board of Education back in January.

“We can’t make payroll if we don’t have that $600,000,” said Carol Merlone, Ansonia Schools Superintendent.

The standoff has reached a courtroom because the Ansonia Board of Education is now suing the City of Ansonia.

In a nine-page lawsuit filed on Wednesday, the board argues the city is “illegally” cutting its cash after already having approved the education budget.

“I’m very frustrated that it has come to this. It’s very disheartening,” said Merlone.

“I would like to see, have seen a peaceful resolution,” said Daniel King, (R) the Board of Apportionment & Taxation chair.

King pointed out that while the school district is facing a local cut, it unexpectedly received more than a million dollars from the state.

City leaders noted it was the late state budget in 2017 that forced Ansonia to tweak its own numbers earlier this year, including for the schools.

“For the city, we have to balance the budget and make sure all services are taken care of,” King said.

When it comes to the extra state money, the superintendent is pushing back, saying it can really only be used for certain things. After a vote on Thursday, the issue moves back to the city aldermen.