The Department of Homeland Security has announced plans to revoke the green cards of two Dominican nationals involved in a fatal home invasion in Connecticut, as reported by News Media.
DHS revealed on Thursday that the suspects, Ivan Antonio Barias-Florimon, 24, and Stuar Jose Lopez-Reyes, 25, both hail from the Dominican Republic. Each has been labeled a “criminal alien” by the authorities.
Investigators allege that Barias-Florimon and Lopez-Reyes forcibly entered a beach house in Milford, Connecticut, resulting in the shooting of a couple. Fredrick Werner, 69, succumbed to multiple gunshot wounds, while his wife is hospitalized, enduring a gunshot wound to her head.
Tragically, Fredrick Werner, 69, was fatally shot during the suspected home invasion at his Milford residence on June 3. (Getty Images: miroslav_1, and Prospect Memorial and Cremation Services)
This unsettling home invasion transpired on June 3.
The two suspects were arrested days apart after law enforcement secured warrants for their arrests on July 28. U.S. Marshals, along with Milford and New Haven police, arrested Lopez-Reyes two days later.
U.S. Marshals captured the second suspect accused of killing a 69-year-old man during a targeted home invasion in Milford after a two-month manhunt. (WTIC)
On Tuesday, the U.S. Marshals New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force (NYNJRFTF) announced they had arrested Barias-Florimon, 24, in the Bronx.
According to DHS, Barias-Florimon entered the United States in 2007 as the son of a lawful permanent resident.
Two people walk along Walnut Beach at Milford on Nov. 6, 2024. (Arnold Gold/Connecticut Post via Getty Images)
Lopez-Reyes entered the country on a visa in November 2016 during the Obama administration. DHS said he was arrested in 2021 on charges of criminal mischief and criminal obstruction of breathing and was ultimately convicted of disorderly conduct.
DHS said Lopez-Reyes was granted lawful permanent resident status in October 2022 during the Biden administration.
“Possessing a green card is a privilege, not a right,” DHS said. “Under our nation’s laws, our government has the authority to revoke a green card if our laws are broken and abused.”