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Good Samaritan killed while breaking up Bridgeport attack

Bridgeport police are looking for the people involved in the fatal stabbing of a Good Samaritan who was trying to help a woman being attacked. Authorities say Francisco Barbosa-Vega, 23, saw a man beating

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May 29, 2012, 6:24 PM

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