Connecticut Trooper Pleads Not Guilty in 2020 Fatal Shooting

Connecticut State Trooper Brian North, (C), flanked by Andrew Matthews, president of the Connecticut State Police Union, (L), and attorney Jeffrey Ment, appears in Milford Superior Court, in Milford, Conn., on May 3, 2022. Sean Fowler/Hartford Courant via AP

MILFORD, Conn.—A Connecticut state trooper who killed a 19-year-old man while firing seven gunshots into the driver’s window of a stolen car in 2020 pleaded not guilty to a manslaughter charge Thursday.

Trooper Brian North made a brief appearance in Milford Superior Court as relatives of Mubarak Soulemane repeated their calls for North to be convicted and fired. North remains free on bail but is on paid administrative leave with his police powers suspended pending the outcome of the criminal case.