Republican Official Ellen Wink Charged with Murdering Tenant

A Republican election official in Connecticut is charged with murdering a tenant by reportedly exhibiting up with a gun and capturing him 4 instances within the torso. The official, nonetheless, could also be poising herself to say self-defense.

The Norwalk Police Division wrote that at 11:52 a.m. on Jan. 20, 2022, a dispatch middle obtained a 911 name of a “disturbance” at 16 Nelson Avenue.

“Arriving Patrol Division Officers positioned a male sufferer inside the residence affected by gunshot wounds,” the police wrote.  “Norwalk Hospital Emergency Medical Service evaluated the male sufferer and declared him deceased.”

The rest of the message sought ideas from potential witnesses and instructed the neighborhood that no risk was ongoing.

A number of hours later, extra particulars had been revealed.

The division stated that Ellen Wink, 61, of a neighboring handle at 18 Nelson Avenue, had been arrested and charged with homicide.  The “disturbance” was between Wink and a male sufferer; the male sufferer had “sustained a number of gunshot wounds,” the police reiterated.

Wink’s bond was set at $1 million; a courtroom date was scheduled for Feb. 1, 2022.

The sufferer was subsequently recognized as Kurt Lametta, 54.  Prosecutors throughout a quick Friday arraignment recognized Lametta as Wink’s tenant, the Stamford Advocate reported.

“Wink and the sufferer on this case had quite a few interactions over the course of a month,” stated prosecutor Michelle Manning on Friday, in line with the Advocate.  “She then very clearly confirmed her anger in the direction of the sufferer. That anger escalated to the purpose the place she shot him in his residence — she introduced the gun to that home and shot him yesterday. That, within the state’s view, exhibits that she is a really harmful one who lets her anger information her finger.”

A police report obtained by the Advocate means that Wink might declare self protection.  She reportedly instructed a 911 dispatcher that Lametta “got here” at her when she went to his condominium to wash.  It’s unclear why she believed she may enter Lametta’s condominium.

“He was after me,” Wink reportedly instructed the dispatcher, in line with the police report obtained by the Advocate.

“I’m so bored with this man,” she reportedly continued.  “He’s on the ground.”

A detective continued by describing the stream of consciousness.

“She stated that she had stored telling him to get out and had sufficient,” stated a police report cited by the Stamford newspaper.  “Wink continued rambling about points Kurt Lametta induced.”

One other tenant reportedly instructed the police that after a loud bang, it was Lametta, the sufferer, who yelled out that 911 needs to be known as.

Although Lametta reportedly suffered 4 wounds, Wink apparently stated that she fired 5 photographs from a revolver and that Lametta had been “(expletive) driving me nuts.”  Wink’s boyfriend stated he heard a bang, a pause, and some extra bangs — probably proof that would flip in opposition to Wink — however then added that Lametta was “a giant bully” and that Wink was “afraid” of him.

The Hour, a Hearst Connecticut Media web site, stated that Wink was “beforehand arrested in September after a dispute along with her tenant.”  The Advocate stated Lametta was the identical tenant referenced within the September 2021 incident.

“On the time, Wink locked the tenant out of the house and threw away their private belongings, together with garments, jewellery and money, in line with Norwalk Police Sgt. Sofia Gulino,” The Hour stated of the 2021 incident.

That case, nonetheless, is now “statutorily sealed,” in line with a notation on a web-based courtroom docket.  An April 22, 2022 courtroom date was set within the matter.

Wink’s homicide arrest doesn’t but seem on the courtroom system’s docket.

Police data cited by the Advocate confirmed a historical past of hassle between the 2 courting again so far as September 2020.

One other native information web site, Nancy on Norwalk, which describes itself as an “unbiased, nonprofit web site information” based by former company media professionals, stated it had obtained an arrest warrant from the Sept. 18, 2021 incident earlier than the case was sealed.

The web site reported that Wink was charged final yr with legal mischief, larceny, and legal lockout in reference to that earlier landlord/tenant dispute.  The complaining witness stated he was “renting a room in Wink’s residence at 16 Nelson Ave. and that she had locked him out and thrown his belongings within the trash,” the web site indicated in a abstract of the case paperwork.

The police papers stated Wink instructed the authorities that the tenant hadn’t paid his hire and that she was “bored with arguing with him as a result of he was late each month.”  So, Wink reportedly claimed that she took her tenant’s belongings to the dump.  The tenant recognized the rubbished objects as jewellery, clothes, and $500 in money.

The police reportedly stated they gave Wink a number of alternatives to permit the tenant again into the home, however “she refused to take action,” in line with Nancy on Norwalk. When the police instructed Wink they’d cost her over the matter, she allegedly grew to become “adamant that she must be arrested.”  And so she was — and her bond was reportedly set at $2,000, the web site reported.

Wink’s Fb web page is replete with anti-Joe Biden, anti-Bernie Sanders, and pro-Ron DeSantis memes and pictures.  It additionally accommodates many missives which extol the notion that persons are the masters of their financial destinies and that the federal government is wrongly giving handouts to individuals who don’t deserve them.

And he or she reportedly complained about her tenant.

“I’ve received a tenant who gained’t depart, is a truck driver, and attracts unemployment!” Wink reportedly claimed in a Fb put up, in line with Nancy on Norwalk.

“Unhappy on all ranges!” she continued in a phrase that appeared to channel Donald Trump. “Gotta go dude!!”

Regulation&Crime was unable to immediately find the put up recognized by Nancy on Norwalk, nevertheless it did discover one other by which Wink apparently complained about liberal and progressive requires police reform.

“The present cry is maintain police accountable,” the put up learn. “I actually consider police would do a much better job if COURTS truly held CRIMINALS accountable.”

Wink shared that put up on Jan. 19, 2022, at 7:49 a.m.  Her tenant was lifeless a bit of greater than a day later.

The put up was rapidly being swarmed with commentators as of Friday night.

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