 He was brought to Panther headquarters in New Haven, Connecticut, held captive and tortured there for several days, "tried" in kangaroo court, condemned to death, taken to the wetlands of Middlefield, Connecticut, and murdered there.His killing was the crime at the center of the 1970 New Haven Black Panther trials.By the late 1960s, the Black Panther Party for self-defense knew that they were a primary target of local and federal law enforcement officials, who sought to infiltrate the movement with informants.