Attorney charged in lethal Litchfield shooting

Fisher’s lawyer, William Conti, of the Regulation Places of work of Conti, Levy & Salerno, verified Wednesday that his consumer had turned himself in.

“This is a scenario of appropriate self-defense,” Conti advised Hearst Connecticut Media.

Point out police have been named to the law company, Cramer & Anderson, in Litchfield, around 5 p.m. June 7, 2021, for a disturbance with gunfire. There they identified 39-yr-outdated Matthew Bromley, a former Torrington resident, shot in the head in the parking good deal. He was afterwards pronounced useless, according to preceding reports.

The regulation business placed Fisher, one particular of its senior partners, on depart soon after the shooting as condition police earlier recognized him as the “subject of the investigation.”

Bromley’s family and Cramer & Anderson ended up not straight away readily available for remark Wednesday evening.

Matthew Bromley, who lived in Virginia at the time, was going to his mother even though she was below conclude-of-existence hospice care, his sister, Ericka Bromley, claimed in a prior story. He was also hunting for career prospects to remain in the condition.

“It wasn’t fair to my brother to have his lifestyle taken from him,” Ericka Bromley stated in former experiences.

State law enforcement beforehand mentioned they thought Fisher and Bromley understood each and every other, but were being uncertain how specifically.

Cramer & Anderson produced a assertion in July 2021 stating that there was no document of Bromley ever getting a customer of the company, “or currently being mentioned as an adversarial bash.”

A complete conviction background was not offered for Bromley, but court documents confirmed Bromley was convicted of carrying a perilous weapon and next-diploma burglary in two individual incidents in Torrington in 2003. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison for both offenses, which he served at the identical time as the weapon charge, in accordance to preceding stories.

Bromley was also arrested in 2002 on fees of carrying a weapon and carrying a weapon in a motor car or truck in Harwinton. He pleaded guilty and was given a 3-calendar year suspended sentence with 3 many years of conditional discharge. In 2011, Bromley pleaded responsible to driving below the impact and targeted traffic violations, former experiences stated.

Many other courtroom information affiliated with Bromley experienced been ruined as of 2021, judicial procedure staff stated in earlier reports.

Fisher most not long ago specialized in serious estate legislation but labored on civil and prison defense scenarios early in his career, in accordance to the legislation firm’s site.

Litchfield County Bar Affiliation President Ryan Henry explained past calendar year that Fisher, a Vietnam veteran, was a properly-appreciated and respected member of the bar. He also explained Fisher was not another person he would assume to be associated in a confrontation, contacting Fisher a “cool, tranquil male,” in a report previous 12 months.