A Connecticut drug kingpin convicted in the deaths of an 8-year-old boy and his mother was granted clemency by former President Joe Biden — in a stunning 11th-hour move slammed by fellow Democrats.

Jurors in the double murder trial of Adrian Peeler walk back up Earl Avenue after viewing the duplex home at 207 Earl Avenue where Karen Clarke and her 8-year-old son Leroy Brown Jr. were murdered.

Adrian Peeler, 48, was initially sentenced to 25 years in state prison for conspiracy to commit the murder of Karen Clarke and her 8-year-old son, Leroy “BJ” Brown, in January 1999.

BRIDGEPORT — On Jan. 7, 1999, Karen Clarke and her 8-year-old son ... On Friday, outgoing President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of Adrian Peeler, who was convicted in the murders of Clarke ...

Adrian Peeler convicted of conspiracy to murder in case that left a mother and her son dead before they could testify against his brother, another killer.

It began in the 1990s, when the cocaine base called crack swept into New England from New York and turned parts of Bridgeport into battlegrounds between armed gangs of drug dealers. Karen Clarke ...

But the family members of Karen Clarke, who was murdered in 1999 along with her 8-year-old son, Leroy “BJ” Brown, have said Adrian Peeler doesn’t fit that description. “He’s not a nonvio ...

Adrian Peeler, a reputed drug dealer who was convicted, along with his brother, Russell Peeler Jr., in the fatal shootings of 8-year-old Leroy "BJ" Brown and his mother, Karen Clarke, was one of ...

Adrian Peeler served a 20-year state prison sentence for murder conspiracy in the 1999 shootings of Leroy “B.J.” Brown and his mother, Karen Clarke, in Bridgeport — killings that shocked the ...

BRIDGEPORT, CT (WFSB) - A man convicted for his roles in trading cocaine in Bridgeport, and the killing of an 8-year-old witness and his mother, was granted clemency by President Joe Biden on Monday.

Adrian Peeler, a notorious Connecticut murderer and drug dealer, was among the nearly 2,500 convicted criminals whose prison sentences were commuted last week by former President Joseph P. Biden.