Judge doubles bond for shooting death suspect

STAMFORD — A Bridgeport judge on Monday doubled the bond on a Stamford man being investigated in the shooting death of a woman on the city’s West Side.

Gary Greig, 66, was held over the weekend in lieu of $250,000 bond on an illegal gun possession charge, after police responded to his West Main Street apartment Friday, where they found a woman shot to death, police said.

Greig has not been charged in the death, but was arrested on the gun charge. He is a convicted felon — for second-degree murder in New York State in 1984.

At his arraignment in Bridgeport Monday morning, Senior Assistant State’s Attorney Maureen Ornousky said Grieg told authorities he killed the woman, who police identified on Monday as Staci Magazzi, 50, believed to be of Bridgeport.

“Mr. Greig is being investigated in the death of a woman who he has identified as his girlfriend,” Ornousky said. “He has made statements that he killed her and that she committed suicide and that is currently under investigation.”

Judge Joan Alexander responded by doubling Grieg’s bond.

“Based on his criminal record, which includes a conviction for second-degree murder, and the fact that there is an ongoing investigation, I am setting the bond at $500,000,” she said.

Greig was in the basement lockup on camera during the hearing and did not say anything. He was assigned a temporary public defender for the hearing who declined to comment.

Police responded to Greig’s apartment Friday to check the occupants. Lt. Tom Scanlon, who heads up the Bureau of Criminal Investigations, declined to discuss who called for a welfare check or why.

Inside the fourth-floor apartment, at 182 West Main St., police found Magazzi dead. The apartment was treated as a crime scene and searched after a search warrant was applied for.

In a statement Monday afternoon Scanlon and Capt. Richard Conklin said Magazzi’s death was caused by a single gunshot wound. But the manner of death — whether Magazzi was killed by accident, homicide or suicide — has not yet been determined by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

Scanlon declined further comment on the case.