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Services Set For Construction Worker Shot To Death In Bridgeport

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- A funeral Mass has been scheduled for Jose C. Araujo, the 30-year-old construction worker who was slain last week while on the job in Bridgeport. 

Jose C. Araujo, 30, was slain last week while working.

Jose C. Araujo, 30, was slain last week while working.

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 A Mass of the Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Wednesday, April 1, in St. Augustine Cathedral, 359 Washington Ave., Bridgeport. 

Araujo, of Milford, died Thursday, March 26. Gregory Weathers, 33, of Saunders Avenue, has been charged with murder in connection with the shooting death.

Araujo was born Sept. 23, 1984, in Sao Nicolau, Cape Verde, and moved to the United States when he was 14. He graduated from Central High School in 2003.

He had worked for Burns Construction as a laborer for the last three years and was working at a job site on Chopsey Hill Road when he was slain.

"He enjoyed working out, playing soccer and dancing," Parente-Lauro Funeral Home said on its website. "Jose touched many lives with his winning smile and selfless acts."

He is survived by his mother, Maria de Fatima Cabral Araujo and his father, Joao Raimundo Araujo; his son, Jose J. Araujo; his life partner, Analia Gray and her two daughters, Milani and Brianna Gray; his sister, Maria Araujo; his brothers, Antonio Araujo and wife Lucy, and Joao Araujo and wife Mona Lisa; and many nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by a brother, Celestine Cabral Araujo. 

Entombment will follow the Mass in Mountain Grove Cemetery, Pilgrimage Mausoleum, Bridgeport. Parente-Lauro Funeral Home, 559 Washington Ave., Bridgeport, handled arrangements.

A memorial fund has been started to pay for Araujo's funeral services, with any additional money to be set aside for his son's college fund. Make a contribution here.

On the morning of the shooting, Weathers had first approached a company foreman and inquired about a job. The foreman referred him to the company office to fill out an application. Weathers walked away but returned a short time later. 

Weathers, for “no apparent reason,” approached Araujo, who was working in a trench, and shot him five times, police said. 

Two officers who were at the road construction site to direct traffic pursued Weathers on foot and were able to capture him, police said.

Weathers was apprehended behind a house on Saunders Avenue near his home and immediately confessed, police said. 

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