Trumbull police have arrested a 30-year-old Fairfield man accused of attacking his ex-girlfriend on Sunday morning.
The victim’s mother called Trumbull police at 9:37 a.m. to report that her daughter was being attacked by her ex-boyfriend inside her apartment at the Eaves of Trumbull.
When police responded, the victim said Richard Rosario assaulted her, said he had a weapon and threatened to shoot any officer responding to her home, according to a news release from police.
Trumbull officers, with help from Bridgeport Police and State Police, set up a perimeter around the complex.
The victim told the first Trumbull officers to arrive that Rosario had fled her apartment and led investigators to a vacant apartment in the building, police said.
The apartment was locked from the inside, police said, and Rosario jumped out of a second-floor back window as police were preparing to enter.
He ran into the woods near Route 25, police said, led police on a chase across the highway toward the parking lots at the end of Quarry Road, police said.
A Trumbull officer who was responding to the area saw Rosario behind a building, trying to climb a fence and apprehended him with help from a state trooper.
Police said Rosario did not have a weapon. He was transported to St. Vincent’s Medical Center to be treated for a minor hand injury, where he again tried to escape, police said.
Two Trumbull officers caught him inside the hospital.
The victim told police that Rosario tried to strangle her, punched her in the face several times and threatened to kill her and other family members. She refused medical attention at the scene.
Rosario was wanted on a Trumbull warrant for violation of a protective order from a previous encounter with the victim, police said. The outstanding arrest warrant was served and bond was set at $50,000.
Rosario has also been charged with home invasion, third-degree burglary, first-degree stalking, second-degree strangulation, third-degree assault, escape from custody, second-degree threatening, possession of drug paraphernalia, interfering with an officer, disorderly conduct and unlawful restraint.
Bond was set at $750,000.
He is expected to be arraigned in Bridgeport on Monday.
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