MIDDLETOWN, CONN. — A man accused of shooting a Wesleyan University student to death last month in Connecticut is to return to court and decide whether he wants a preliminary hearing to contest the allegations.
Stephen Morgan, 29, is due in Middletown Superior Court on Tuesday. He is charged with murder in the May 6 shooting of Johanna Justin-Jinich, of Timnath in a college bookstore cafe near Wesleyan in Middletown.
The two knew each other since at least 2007, when they attended a summer program at New York University. She filed a harassment complaint against him then but did not press charges.
Murder suspects in Connecticut have the right to a probable-cause hearing in which a judge decides whether there is enough evidence for the case to go forward.
