Shelton Cops Charge Third Suspect In Hotel Stickup

Shelton police have charged the third man they say perpetrated a stickup at a Bridgeport Avenue hotel in June.

The man, Derrick Gilliam, 28, was charged with first-degree robbery and sixth-degree larceny.

In July police arrested two other Bridgeport residents, Anthony Santiago and Lancelot Supersad, on identical charges in connection with the heist.

Police said that on June 26 about 8:15 p.m. officers were dispatched to the Residence Inn at 1001 Bridgeport Ave. on a report of a robbery.

Employees there told cops that two men had entered the hotel and demanded money after showing a firearm before fleeing the scene in a getaway vehicle.

No one was injured during the stickup, police said.

Gilliam has been behind bars since late July, when Westport police charged him with robbing a TD Bank.

At the time of that arrest, Gilliam was out on bond on a case out of New Jersey in which he stands accused being drunk at the wheel when he struck and killed a college student in April 2013, according to the Norwalk Hour.

Gilliam was arraigned at Superior Court in Derby Friday where a judge set bond in the case at $100,000 and continued the matter to Oct. 28, at which point it will likely be transferred to Superior Court at Milford.

Charges against Santiago and Supersad, who were also charged along with Gilliam in the Westport bank robbery, are pending.