Police: Suspect in Grove Street Car-Jacking Incident Charged

Police have charged a teen with a series of serious offenses in connection with an alleged car-jacking incident in January, a law enforcement spokesman said.

The incident was at the same Rockville tenement where man man who went on a killing spree in Wyoming lived.

Ryan Lajoie, 18, who lived at 24 Grove St. in Rockville, a two-story rooming house next to the old Amerbelle factory, was taken into custody at 10:30 p.m. on Thursday, police said.

He had been wanted in connection with an alleged car-jacking that took place in mid-January at the tenement.

The car-jacking involved a baseball bat attack and stolen items, police said.

Lajoie is being described by police as not having a permanent address. He had been staying with an acquaintance at 283 Crystal Lake Rd. in Tolland for a time before living in a room at the Grove Street building, police said.

Police said his bond was set at $200,000 on the following charges:

• Conspiracy to commit second-degree assault.

• Second-degree assault.

• Conspiracy to commit second-degree larceny.

• Second-degree larceny.

• First-degree robbery.

• Conspiracy to commit first-degree robbery.  

Vernon detectives said the case still open and more arrests are anticipated.  

Jajoie not only lived in the tenement, but in the next room over from the one rented by Christopher Krumm when he left Vernon and traveled to Casper, WY, where he killed a woman with a knife, his father with a bow and arrow and then himself, Casper police said. The Vernon connection to the case developed in early December after Vernon police searched the house.