The Office of the Inspector General has determined that a Colchester police constable who shot and killed a man while responding to a landlord-tenant dispute in April 2024 was justified for using deadly force.

In a report released on Wednesday, the Office of Inspector General said three constables responded to a home on Norwich Avenue in Colchester around 6:15 p.m. on April 18, 2024 , when the tenant called police because he was afraid things were going to escalate after a fight with the landlord.

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The tenant said the landlord, 33-year-old Jared Billard, was in the basement and he was drunk, irrational and had been yelling at cars and waving knives around.

AS the constables approached, Billard yelled, used vulga

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