Murder Med for Depression 26/08/2006 Connecticut Man Murders Friend
 
 Summary:<br><br><div>Paragraph 4 reads: &quot;Estrada, a former electrical assembly worker with a back injury so bad he lived in constant pain, <strong>was taking medication</strong> for that and <strong>for depression.</strong>&quot;<br /><br /><a href="http://www.newstimeslive.com/news/story.php?id=1011459">http://www.newstimeslive.com/news/story.php?id=1011459<br /><br /></a>Suspect reportedly made threats of killing, suicide <br /><br />By Mark Langlois <br />THE NEWS-TIMES <br /><div align="center"><br />&nbsp;</div>Joselito Estrada<br /><br />DANBURY -- A week before Joselito Estrada was charged with murdering Fe Cruz in her Broad Street home, he was reported to be threatening suicide and murder in Newtown. <br /><br />&quot;He was going to kill himself with a knife and &#39;take someone out with him,&#39;&quot;&quot; Newtown police said in their crisis intervention report dated Aug. 16. <br /><br />Newtown police said Estrada, 51, was making suicidal threats. <br /><br />Estrada, a former electrical assembly worker with a back injury so bad he lived in constant pain, was taking medication for that and for depression. <br /><br />Danbury police charged him with murder Thursday after Cruz, a friend, was stabbed to death in her home. <br /><br />His arraignment scheduled for Friday was postponed until Monday after police brought him to Danbury Hospital for care. He had been throwing up Friday, police said. <br /><br />Prior to the murder, Newtown police were called to a Castle Hill Road home on Aug. 16, and the investigating officer said they were warned by a Danbury Hospital crisis intervention counselor that Estrada was threatening suicide and making threats to take someone with him. The threat was actually made to a counselor at Catholic Family Services. <br /><br />When police responded to Castle Hill Road, Estrada explained he was depressed and in pain. <br /><br />Matty Bautista, owner of the Newtown home, said Friday that Estrada wasn&#39;t suicidal at that time.&quot;He said he was in so much pain, he felt like dying,&quot; Bautista said. &quot;It was a problem of communication.&quot; <br /><br />Calls to Estrada&#39;s two brothers who live in Connecticut were not returned Friday. <br /><br />Bautista may be one of the last people to see Estrada before Cruz was stabbed to death Thursday afternoon. <br /><br />Bautista let Estrada stay in her and her husband&#39;s home for the last six months because he was homeless.&quot;We were close to his mom,&quot; said Bautista. &quot;When we heard he was living in his car, we had to help.&quot; <br /><br />Bautista had a spare room in the basement where her son used to live, so she gave it to Estrada. He had stopped working because of his bad back. <br /><br />His back surgery was scheduled for Monday, she said, and he had blood work done Wednesday in anticipation of the surgery. <br /><br />That surgery will have to be rescheduled. <br /><br />After he was taken into custody Thursday, Estrada was ordered held on $1 million bail. <br /><br />Police brought him to Danbury Hospital Friday morning, where he was admitted in stable condition. Danbury police said Estrada is a naturalized American citizen who was born in the Philippines. <br /><br />Bautista met Estrada through friends in her Mah Jongg club. The club met sometimes at Bautista&#39;s house and sometimes at Fe Cruz&#39;s house in Danbury, as well as at the houses of other club members. <br /><br />Cruz was a long-time friend of Bautista&#39;s. <br /><br />Danbury police said Estrada had no run-ins with the police for years. <br /><hr />News-Times online editor Eugene Driscoll contributed to this story. <br /><br />Contact Mark Langlois <br /><br />at <a href="mailto:mlanglois@newstimes.com">mlanglois@newstimes.com</a> <br /><br />or at (203) 731-3337 <br /><br />this story has been read 669 times <br /><br /><br /></div> 
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