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HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — The Connecticut Office of the Inspector General has deemed the use of deadly force by three South Central Regional SWAT team members during a 14-hour standoff in August was legally justified, according to a report released Wednesday.

It was the evening of Aug. 19 when police first responded to a home on Cloudland Road for report of shots fired. Officers found spent casings in the driveway and tried to communicate with 50-year-old Robert Mazurek in the garage, but he was uncooperative and barricaded himself in the home.

During the subsequent 14-hour standoff, Mazurek allegedly “fired several rounds outside of his home and at SWAT personnel, some of which returned fire,” police said at the time. He also shot at a SWAT vehi

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