Crowd cheers at accused Bridgeport killer's arraignment FacebookTwitterEmail BRIDGEPORT — A crowd cheered in the courtroom Friday as a judge refused to release an accused killer. Michael Riley, the lawyer for Dondre Nesmith, who was charged Thursday night with the July 12 fatal shooting of Javier Flores, of Ansonia, argued that his client should be released because police had failed to secure an arrest warrant for Nesmith on the murder charge. “The law requires police seek an arrest warrant but they didn’t do that,” Riley said. A large group of Flores’ friends and family, the first large group allowed in a courtroom in the Golden Hill Street courthouse since the pandemic, sat forward in their chairs listening to the lawyer’s argument.