BRISTOL — Connecticut’s inspector general continues to list the October 16 fatal Bristol police shooting among pending investigations, according to the office’s public index checked October 31.
The office’s October 19 preliminary report says Jakub Dziemaszkiewicz, 43, died after Officer Mark McGrane fired three shots during a well-being check on Woodbridge Road. The report does not announce a final finding on whether the force was justified.
According to that preliminary account, police received calls at about 8:38 p.m. October 16 expressing concern for Dziemaszkiewicz. Four officers responded, and a drone was deployed. McGrane approached ahead of the others and encountered him near a tree line holding a rifle, the report says.
The report says McGrane repeatedly directed him to drop the weapon and show his hands before firing. Investigators reported finding a rifle and a semiautomatic pistol beside him.
An October 18 autopsy found that Dziemaszkiewicz died from gunshot wounds and classified the manner of death as homicide, according to the medical examiner’s notification attached to the report.
This account was prepared with AI from the office’s written material, not independent scene reporting. Linked body-camera and drone recordings were not reviewed. The photograph shows Bristol police headquarters in an older archive image uploaded in January 2007; it is not the shooting scene.