A decomposing body and numerous explosives were found in the Connecticut home of a man who opened fire on law enforcement trying to evict him Tuesday morning.
Hand grenades, pipe bombs and Molotov cocktails were found after police used an armored vehicle to breach the North Stamford home, where 63-year-old Jed Parkington had barricaded himself inside.
Parkington was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound – but a second body was also discovered in the home, decomposed and on the second floor.
Law enforcement officers respond near a home where a man shot at officers and a decomposed body was later found in Stamford, Conn., Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. APThe identity of that body and when they died remains unclear, but Parkington had lived in the four-bed house with his wife for over 20 years, according to the Stamford Advocate.
Gunfire broke out on North Stamford’s upscale Oakland Ave. around 9 a.m. when a state marshal knocked on the door to carry out an eviction order against the couple, who had been foreclosed on last year and first ordered to leave the home in April.
Parkington apparently had other plans, however, and unleashed a volley of gunfire that sent the neighborhood diving for cover.
The suspect, identified as 63-year-old Jed Parkington, opened fire at officers several times during the day. APHeavily armed police arrived as Parkington barricaded himself inside the home, and he blasted volleys of bullets from the house in between officers’ pleas to surrender.
A single gunshot was heard at one point, and hours after the standoff started the home was breached.
Parkington’s body was quickly located, along with the decomposed remains and explosives. Miraculously no officers were hurt in the standoff.
“This was an extremely dangerous incident that tragically resulted in the loss of two lives,” Stamford Police Police Chief Timothy Shaw said in a statement.
The Stamford Police bomb squad responded to the home to safely remove the explosives. Stamford Police DepartmentAn investigation remains underway to identify the body’s identity and cause of death.
A letter signed by Parkington’s wife was sent to a Connecticut judge as recently as Monday, in which she pleaded to have their eviction stayed until after the holidays, the Advocate reported.
It remains unclear whether she actually wrote it, however, or when it was written.
The couple owed about $700,000 on the house, and Parkington’s wife explained in the letter that they’d fallen on hard times after her husband lost his job in 2014 and then was diagnosed with cancer.
“We were not able to recover economically and now we are suffering the loss of our home,” Parkington’s wife wrote in the letter.
A judge promptly dismissed that request, and ordered the eviction order be upheld.
With Post wires.
