A fatal shooting by police in Wallingford, Connecticut, is raising questions about whether officers could have responded in another way. The state inspector general's office says two officers fired about 10 gunshots at Donald Passmore as he lay in his bed with a .22-caliber revolver early Monday.
This still image from body-worn camera video, provided by the Office of Connecticut Inspector General Robert J. Devlin, shows the Wallingford, Conn. Police Department officer-involved shooting that resulted in the death of Donald Passmore, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. Donald Passmore was lying in bed with a .22-caliber revolver and had country music playing when he was killed by two police officers who had initially been summoned to the 62-year-old’s Connecticut home after a report he’d shot himself.
The videos show Passmore telling officers Gordon McCaskill and Robert Bellucci to put their flashlights down and the officers yelling “Do not touch the gun,” “Get your right hand up now” and “Keep your ... hands where we can see them.”The state inspector general’s office said in a preliminary report that Passmore’s revolver was found on the bed, but neither officer’s video shows it. The videos also do not show the movement of Passmore’s right arm. There was nothing in his left hand.
Michael Lawlor, a criminal justice professor at the University of New Haven and a former state lawmaker, said the inspector general’s office will determine whether the officers broke any laws.
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