Jeffrey Michael O’Connor

Deadly force

Police responded to reports of a man with a knife at the Richfield house O'Connor shared with his aunt. When officers arrived, police said, they encountered O'Connor, holding his aunt at knifepoint. The officers were able to subdue O'Connor briefly with a Taser, but a struggle soon followed, as O'Connor fought the officers with his knife. An officer freed the aunt from the situation as it escalated, and one of the officers fired at O'Connor. According to the investigative report, O'Connor's family members described a history of mental illness that had intensified shortly before his death.