Trumbull prosecutor opposes parole for convicted murderer

Staff report

WARREN

The Trumbull County Prosecutor’s office is opposing parole for Mitchell Monday, 40, who was sentenced to 19 1/2 years to life in prison for killing Mark Dixon in January 1995 and later setting a fire in the Trumbull County jail.

Monday has served close to 20 years and is due for a parole hearing next month. He was denied parole in 2009, when he was eligible the first time.

Monday was 20 years old and Dixon was 29 at the time Monday shot Dixon at “point-blank range” in Monday’s Pearl Street home, Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins said.

Dixon, who lived on Oak Street, had come to Monday’s home for a party, and the two men were “playing around like they were going to hit each other,” according to an affidavit written by then-Capt. Joseph Consiglio of the Weathersfield Police Department.

Monday later told police he pulled a gun from his rear pants pocket. “I pointed this gun at him and then brought it down. I then started playing with the hammer, pulling it back and forth in which the gun in front of my chest, and then the gun went off,” he said.

Others came into the room after that, but no one called for an ambulance, the affidavit said.

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