MOUNT OLIVE(11/26/05) – Joseph O. Gagnon was arraigned in Connecticut yesterday, accused of fatally shooting Annick Smitton, 55, of Mount Olive. He was held in $1 million bail pending an extradition hearing next week.

He was captured and arrested in Westport on Thanksgiving morning. Police said they found a 40 caliber hand gun in the car he was driving. An autopsy has determined that Smitton died from a single 40 caliber bullet wound in the head between 15 and 20 days before the body was found in Gagnon’s Eagle Rock Village apartment. Smitton lived in the Hensyn Village garden apartment complex about a mile away.

Gaganon is being held in a prison in Bridgeport.