| Unsolved homicide not just a number for grieving mother Sunday, January 6, 2002 By KATE RAMUNNI Unsolved cases kramunni@ctpost.com Of Bridgeport's 17 homicides BRIDGEPORT - While city during 2001, nine are unsolved, officials are pleased the num- with no suspects identified or ber of homicides has been cut, arrested. These murder cases one woman is struggling to are: come to terms with her son's * Nawzad Mikael, 28, of Grovers unsolved murder. Street in Ansonia, an employee Zoltan "Zeus" Kiss was Eva of Barnum News & Variety on Kiss' only son, and since he Main Street, who was shot to was murdered death behind the counter of the last Sept. 28, North End business Jan. 27. Kiss said her * Jorge Ortiz, 29, of Connecticut life has been Avenue, died from multiple hell. gunshot wounds he suffered at a "It is just North Washington Avenue social killing me in- club March 11. side," she said. * James Ware, 35, of Mountain "Every day it Drive in Shelton, killed July 8 by just doesn't get a gunshot during a robbery on any easier." Vernon Street, on the East Side. Police said * Tymon O. Sistrunk, 21, of Zoltan was shot at least 15 Anthony Street, killed July 18 by times on Pembroke Street gunfire while changing a tire on about 3:15a.m. The 24-year-old, his car on Beardsley Street, in who worked as a chimney the East End. sweep and painter, had no crim- * Luis Tejeda, 40, of the Bronx, inal record, police said, and no N.Y., shot to death July 27 in his drugs were found in his car. car on Jefferson Street, in the Eva Kiss lives in Canada and East End. is divorced from the victim's fa- * Eduardio Palacio (aka Wilson ther. The family lived in Rivas), age undetermined, of Bridgeport from 1984 to 1989, New York City, found dead from she said. "We got fed up with a gunshot to the neck in the what was going on in Bridge- basement of an abandoned port and moved to Toronto," Ogden Street house on Aug. 8. she said. "And then 12 years lat- * Zoltan "Zeus" Kiss, 24, of Alice er he is killed in Bridgeport - Street, shot numerous times one street over from where we Sept. 28 on Pembroke Street. lived." * Maria Martorony, 35, address After the couple divorced unknown, killed Nov. 2 by seven years ago, Zoltan and his multiple gunshots at East Main father moved back to Bridge- and Steuben streets on the East port. Eva said her ex-husband Side. took the boy without her per- * Fabian Boston, 17, of mission, and while she had not Ridgefield Avenue, a passenger seen him over that time, she in a car, who died from wounds said she maintained close con- Dec. 12 after the car was struck tact with her son. by gunfire on Carroll Avenue. Kiss didn't see Zoltan again until after an autopsy was per- Anyone with information about formed on his body. "They cut a these cases is asked to call the hole in [the body bag] so I could Bridgeport Police Department's hold his hand," she said. Detective Bureau at 576-7624. "There was no trauma to his Calls will be kept confidential. face - his eyes were almost closed and he looked like he was sleeping." After her son was cremated, continuing to investigate. Eva took the ashes home with Eva Kiss is determined that her. She keeps them with her her son's killers be found. She all the time, she said, and also has contacted both the mayor has created a Web site in mem- and the governor to inquire ory of her son - www.geoci- about a reward, but hasn't got- ties.com/murderinconnecticut ten any answers. /index.html "If I have to sell my house to "The police only give me bits get reward money, I will," she and pieces of information," she said. "Maybe hypothetically I said. She said her son might think finding them will bring have been killed because of a my son back, but I just have to dispute, but no suspects have do it." been identified and police are Anyone with information about the homicide of Zoltan Kiss is asked to call the Detective Bureau at 576-7624. Calls will be kept confidential. |
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