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State Sen. Ryan Fazio sharply criticized Gov. Ned Lamont’s criminal sanctuary policies following the death of University of New Haven club hockey captain Ryan O’Shea, who was killed in a wrong-way crash involving a twice-deported Mexican national.

O’Shea, a 21-year-old senior who had interned with the NYPD and planned a career protecting others, was driving home from a game on October 16 when he was struck head-on by Guillermo Carmona-Lopez, a twice-deported illegal alien living in Bridgeport. Carmona-Lopez had been removed from the country in 2013, reentered illegally (a felony), and reentered again at an unknown time.

Fazio said: “Ryan, a 21-year-old college senior who wanted to protect others for his career, should still be alive today. Under Gov. Lamont’s criminal sanctuary policies Ryan’s killer could be convicted for manslaughter and still let out on the streets following his sentence instead of being transferred to federal authorities for removal from the state."

"Gov. Lamont continues to put politics and criminals ahead of common sense and safety. That policy attracts more of it," Fazio continued. "Ryan, just like Henryk Gudelski, Liam Rivera, Officer Whiteside, and other innocent citizens deserved better. Yet Lamont and other CT Dems will never call a press conference, lock arms and march, or run commercials in their memories. It’s wrong and it must change.”

The contrast with Lamont’s approach is stark.

While Fazio directly ties the tragedy to state sanctuary policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities—policies first codified in the 2013 Trust Act and later strengthened—Lamont has typically offered only generic expressions of condolence in similar cases, avoiding any discussion of the driver’s immigration status or the state’s role in allowing such individuals to remain. The same is true in Ryan O’Shea’s case. The public statement the Centinal obtained from the governor failed to address Carmona-Lopez’s twice-deported history or to call for changes to the policies that, critics argue, make these preventable deaths more likely.

This follows a documented pattern of fatal crashes involving illegal aliens in Connecticut, including the July 2026 deaths of off-duty Bridgeport Officer Cooper Whiteside and his girlfriend, and earlier cases in which state authorities failed to honor ICE detainers. Fazio’s statement underscores what many see as a consistent Democratic refusal to confront the consequences of these policies.

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