Bridgeport police release video of suspect in death of woman found behind American Legion building

BRIDGEPORT — Bridgeport police have released a video of a woman found dead in a shopping cart in an East End parking lot in November.

In the release, Bridgeport police Det. Jeffrey Holtz said the dead woman was identified as Rickeyta Baker, a 37-year-old Bridgeport resident. He said Baker’s body was found by police around 4:10 p.m. Friday in the rear parking lot of the American Legion building at 1028 Stratford Ave. after dispatchers received a report of a human body.

Police said the woman’s death is being investigated as suspicious. 

Holtz said the department’s Homicide Unit took over the investigation, adding detectives located surveillance video that showed what appeared to be a male wheeling Baker into the lot in the shopping cart three days earlier at approximately 3:30 a.m.

The same person was then seen on video walking north of Fifth Street several minutes later, Holtz said, noting that video is now released. He said the department is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying the person in the video.

“Detectives are requesting the public pay special attention to his walk and jacket,” he said. “They believe the person is familiar with the East End, and may reside there.”

Holtz said the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner conducted an autopsy on Baker and the results are pending.

Anyone with information in asked to contact Detective Keith Hanson at 203-581-5243. All tips will be confidential.