Jury selection will begin Tuesday in New London Superior Court for a 31-year-old accused of killing one man and injuring another after opening fire inside a New London apartment in March 2010.

Miguel “Mikey” Vega has pleaded not guilty to murder, attempted murder, home invasion, first-degree assault and criminal possession of a firearm. In taking his case to trial, he rejected State’s Attorney Michael L. Regan’s offer to plead guilty in exchange for a 45-year-prison sentence.

Regan and Vega’s attorney, John E. Franckling, will select 12 jurors and several alternates and will try the case before Judge Barbara Bailey Jongbloed beginning Jan. 26.

Vega is accused of bursting into an apartment at 53 Prest St. with a revolver and opening fire on March 3, 2010, after a bar brawl concerning the mother of Vega’s child. The shooting left 21-year-old Rahmel Perry dead and Perry’s friend, Michael Ellis Jr., with non-fatal gunshot wounds.

Vega has been held in lieu of $2 million since 2011, when he was extradited from Georgia to Connecticut to face murder, home invasion, assault and weapon charges.

At a preliminary court hearing in September 2011, witnesses testified that Vega kicked down the door of a second-floor apartment at 53 Prest St. after a fight at the Galley, a State Street bar. Vega announced that “this wasn’t a game,” and started shooting, according to the witnesses.

One woman jumped out the window to escape the gunfire and others scrambled for cover, the witnesses said. When the shooting was over, Perry lay fatally wounded on the couch. His friend Ellis had been shot in the back and leg.

Vega’s relatives and member of Perry’s family have attended dozens of court appearances while the case was pending.

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