On May 24, Manfedonia went to the Derby apartment of his childhood friend , Nicholas Eisele, shot and killed Eisele, kidnapped Eisele's girlfriend and forced her to drive him to New Jersey, officials said.Eisele's girlfriend told police she woke up and heard Eisele saying “relax” and “calm down” loudly from the living room.
As the girlfriend grabbed her cellphone to dial 911, she told police that Manfredonia and Eisele came through the bedroom door and Manfredonia grabbed the cellphone from her hand. She said she ran into the living room and then heard shots. She screamed, and Manfredonia told her to “shut up,” the warrant states.
He made her drive on back roads through Newtown, and they eventually ended up in Columbia, New Jersey, where they pulled into a truck stop.Once he did that, he left Eisele’s girlfriend in her car and she told someone at the truck stop that she had been kidnapped and that Manfredonia had killed someone in Connecticut, according to an arrest warrant stated.
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