Overview
- Body-worn camera released by the Connecticut Office of the Inspector General shows Officer Anthony Offiaeli arriving at a Sagamore Road home and ordering 38-year-old Robert Jenkins III to drop a baseball bat before firing after Jenkins continued the attack, according to the OIG preliminary report.
- The man who was struck with the bat was pronounced dead at the scene and an autopsy found blunt-force head injuries as the cause of death, listed as a homicide by the chief medical examiner.
- Jenkins III was struck by multiple gunshot wounds to the torso, was treated and taken to Hartford Hospital, and later died with the chief medical examiner ruling his death a homicide.
- Media accounts report the officer fired a large number of rounds — described in some reports as at least 18 or nearly 20 — though official counts in the preliminary materials are described only as “numerous” shots.
- The New Haven Judicial District state’s attorney, the Connecticut State Police Major Crime Squad and the OIG are conducting independent investigations that will use the footage and forensic findings to determine legal and administrative outcomes, a process that can take weeks.