Police went to look for Strothers in Meriden because he had family in the area, and because the low-cost motels along Berlin Turnpike were sometimes used as a hideout by suspects, according to the report.Īuthorities spotted Strothers going in and out of a room at the Flamingo Inn. Police in New Britain also had a warrant for his arrest for first-degree robbery, and “he was suspected of other robberies in Southington, Wethersfield, Meriden and Newington,” the inspector general’s report stated.
On the day of the shooting, police were seeking to arrest Strothers on a warrant out of West Hartford, charging him with the armed robbery of a Shell gas station on Jan. The Office of Inspector General will take no further action on this matter.”Īt the time of the shooting, Simonson was 40 years old and had been with the Meriden Police Department for 13 years, Devlin’s report stated. “I therefore conclude that such use of force was justified under Connecticut law. “The investigation establishes that Officer Erik Simonson used deadly force against Kenneth Strothers to prevent Strothers from what Simonson reasonably believed was Strothers’ imminent intent to shoot him,” Devlin concluded in his report. Strothers then racked the weapon’s slide and pointed it, still wrapped in the shirt, at Meriden Police Office Erik Simonson, who shot him once in the abdomen, the report stated.
Strothers then hid behind an SUV and called out to police that he had a gun, pulling out an unloaded firearm wrapped in a T-shirt, the report stated.
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