Second suspect arrested in connection with double shooting in Brookfield

Lina PortmanMay 30, 2024

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YOU ARE ASKED TO CONTACT THE NUMBER AT THE TOP OF YOUR SCREEN. We have news of the Brookfield double shooting that left one person dead… and another seriously injured a year ago. VERMONT STATE POLICE ARRESTED THIS MAN, JOSEPH LUMBRA, WHO IS FROM BROOKFIELD. The 57-year-old man was among the people staying at the house where the shooting took place. HE FACES MANY DRUG CHARGES

Second suspect arrested in connection with double shooting in Brookfield

Vermont State Police said the suspect lived in the home where the shooting occurred and faces several charges.

A second suspect has been arrested in the 2023 shootings of two people in Brookfield, Vermont, that left one person dead and another seriously injured. Vermont State Police say on May 12, 2023, Juan Sierra, 27, of Springfield, Massachusetts, died from his injuries. Miguel Fuentes, 29, also of Springfield, Massachusetts, had to be taken to the hospital for his injuries. Sierra's body was found outside a home on Vermont Route 14. The shooting was drug-related, police said. Police have now arrested Joseph Lumbra, 57, of Brookfield, on multiple charges. Lumbra is charged with possession of cocaine, trafficking in cocaine, trafficking in fentanyl and conspiracy. Investigators say Lumbra lived inside the home where the shooting occurred. The first suspect was arrested last July while getting off a plane in New York. Devon Dennis, 43, of Hartford, Connecticut, was charged with second-degree murder in Sierra's death. He was also charged with attempted second-degree murder for shooting Fuentes. Dennis was extradited from New York to Vermont last year and appeared in court. Lumbra is currently being held on bail. He is due in court Thursday for arraignment.

BROOKFIELD, Vt. —

A second suspect has been arrested in the 2023 shootings of two people in Brookfield, Vermont, that left one person dead and another seriously injured.

Vermont State Police say on May 12, 2023, Juan Sierra, 27, of Springfield, Massachusetts, died from his injuries. Miguel Fuentes, 29, also of Springfield, Massachusetts, had to be taken to the hospital for his injuries.

Sierra's body was found outside a home on Vermont Route 14. The shooting was drug-related, police said.

Police have now arrested Joseph Lumbra, 57, of Brookfield, on several charges. Lumbra is charged with possession of cocaine, trafficking in cocaine, trafficking in fentanyl and conspiracy.

Investigators say Lumbra lived inside the home where the shooting occurred.

The first suspect was arrested last July while getting off a plane in New York. Devon Dennis, 43, of Hartford, Connecticut, was charged with second-degree murder in Sierra's death. He was also charged with attempted second-degree murder for shooting Fuentes.

Dennis was extradited from New York to Vermont last year and appeared in court.

Lumbra is currently being held on bail. He is due in court Thursday for arraignment.