Connecticut man attacking his father with bat, is shot by police.
A police officer who fatally shot a man who was beating his father with a baseball bat in Meriden on Sunday had to fire nearly 20 rounds at the man before the son finally fell backwards, stopping the attack.
In his preliminary report, Inspector General Eliot Prescott identified the assailant who was shot multiple times as 38-year-old Robert Lee Jenkins III. Though Prescott did not name the victim in his report, he has been identified as 69-year-old Robert Jenkins , Jr.
According to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner , Jenkins III died from multiple gunshot sounds of the torso. Jenkins, Jr., died of blunt force head injuries. Both deaths were ruled a homicide, a spokesperson for the medical examiner said.
According to Prescott, officers responded to a home on Sagamore Road around 10 a.m. in connection with an active domestic violence incident. Offiaeli’s body camera footage shows him arrive first to the scene, at which point he suddenly shifts his cruiser into park, rushes out from the vehicle and radios in for backup to “step it up.”
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