Westbrook Man Arrested For Assisted Suicide: State Police

WESTBROOK, CT — A Westbrook man faces a manslaughter charge after helping his terminally ill wife commit suicide. Connecticut State Police announced Thursday that Kevin Conners, 65, of Break Neck Hill Road, had turned himself in on an arrest warrant at Troop F in Westbrook.

Police said Conners assisted the terminally ill family member with committing suicide on Sept. 6, 2018. A lengthy investigation was conducted by members of the Connecticut State Police Central District Major Crime Squad at Troop F – Westbrook leading to the arrest warrant, according to police.

Conners was charged with second-degree manslaughter. He was released after posting a $50,000 bond and was arraigned at Middletown Superior Court on Friday.

No additional charges or arrests are expected in the case, according to police.

The Hartford Courant reports Conners, a retired lieutenant with the state Department of Correction, helped his wife of 42 years commit suicide. His wife had been suffering and had attempted suicide once before on her own and the couple had hoped police would conclude she had acted alone when she died, according to the Courant.

Conners told police that he held the gun that was used in the suicide to stabilize it for his wife, but she pulled the trigger, according to the New Haven Register. Conners said that he couldn’t keep watching his wife suffer like she was and she was constantly writing “goodbye” letters to him and their four children, the Register reports.

Read more at the Hartford Courant here and the New Haven Register here.