WATERBURY, Conn. — The Office of the Inspector General released more details and bodycam footage from last Thursday’s police shooting in Waterbury that injured a detective and ended with the arrest of a suspect.
The chain of events started with the attempted theft of a vehicle by three suspects in a white Ford Explorer. The victim was able to drive away from the incident at 59 Waterville Street, Waterbury around 8:30 p.m. Thursday. Police arrived in the area and were looking for three masked men with a gun. Twenty minutes later, a similar incident at 109 Chase Ave. was reported to police. According to that victim, a man in a white Ford Explorer took his keys.
Waterbury Police Sergeant Steve Martin and Detective Ronald Sackett were called to the area of America Street on a report of a car alarm going off and a report of three suspects were trying to break into a vehicle.
Police saw a white Ford Explorer at the scene, and a resident said the suspects ran toward 16 Clairmont Street. The officers went to that location and proceeded to move around the residence from opposite directions with Sackett on the eastern side. As Sackett turned the corner to the back of the residence, a subject, later identified as Arian Perez-Feliciano, came out from the western corner of the house, armed with a firearm equipped with a laser sight.
The subject fired multiple rounds at Detective Sackett, striking him in the leg. Detective Sackett returned fire. The subject was not hit. Sackett was taken to Waterbury Hospital. He was treated for a through-and-through gunshot wound to his upper leg, and was released on February 14.
The incident was captured on Sackett’s body cam and a doorbell camera from a nearby home.
Three suspects were apprehended. 18-year-old Sydney Reid, was charged with two counts of first-degree robbery, first-degree conspiracy to commit a robbery, first-degree larceny, two counts of first-degree threatening, two counts of carrying a pistol without a permit, interfering with an officer, and illegal possession of a weapon in a car. Reid was held on a $1.5 million bond.