$1 Million Bond Set In Ellington Home Invasion Case

ELLINGTON, CT — A Windsor Locks resident is being held in lieu of $1 million bond following a violent home invasion Sunday afternoon at an Ellington apartment complex. Shannon Irvin, 53, faces a host of charges.

Around 4 p.m., police began receiving multiple 911 calls from the High Meadow complex at 110 Jobs Hill Rd. for a report of a man who forced entry into a woman's apartment and held her against her will. The man, later identified as Irvin, then ran to a common laundry area and held another woman forcibly down and attempted to assault her, Connecticut State Police said. He was stopped by an intervening witness and fled the common laundry area, police said.

Troopers from Troop C and officers from the Ellington Resident Trooper’s Office converged on the scene and secured the area. The Eastern District Major Crime squad responded and assumed the investigation, and both victims received medical attention at the scene, police said.

Irvin was located by responding troopers in a nearby apartment and taken into custody without incident. He was charged with home invasion, first-degree strangulation, first-degree burglary, first-degree unlawful restraint, second-degree assault and criminal attempt to commit first-degree sexual assault.

Bond was set at $1 million, and he was slated to be arraigned Monday in Hartford Superior Court.

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