Home-invasion killer says he just 'snapped'
SOMERS, Conn. - One of two men sentenced to death for a 2007 triple murder home invasion in Connecticut says no one was supposed to get hurt and he "just snapped."
SOMERS, Conn.
- One of two men sentenced to death for a 2007 triple murder home invasion in Connecticut says no one was supposed to get hurt and he "just snapped."
Steven Hayes recently gave an interview to the New Haven Register.
Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky have been sentenced to death for the killings of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, Hayley and Michaela, at their home in suburban Cheshire.
Hayes told the Register he started to "lose it" when Komisarjevsky told him he sexually assaulted 11-year-old Michaela. Hayes says he then looked out the window, saw an unmarked police car and "snapped." Prosecutors say Hayes strangled and sexually assaulted Hawke-Petit.
"To this day I don't know why it happened," Hayes said. "I just wanted money. That's all I was looking for."
The two men spotted Hawke-Petit and Michaela at a local grocery store, followed them and later broke into their home. Komisarjevsky beat Dr. William Petit, the only survivor, with a baseball bat, and Hayes later went with Hawke-Petit to a bank and forced her to withdraw $15,000.