Man accused of killing family member's kitten arrested: Shelton police

SHELTON, CT – A Shelton man accused of killing a family member's kitten that “annoyed” him was arrested Friday, according to police.

In a news release, police Lt. Robert Kozlowsky said a family member of Krzystof Bakota, 47, of Shelton, told officers she left her kitten in Bakota's care while she was away.

Bakota told the family member that the kitten had gone missing, but the kitten was later found dead in the backyard of the home by another family member, Kozlowsky said.

According to Kozlowsky, Bakota admitted to family members that he killed the kitten. He also told another family member that the kitten was annoying him, so he threw the animal against a table and then off a back deck.

The dead kitten was taken to the Connecticut Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory at the University of Connecticut for an autopsy.

The report said, among other things, that the kitten had multiple skull fractures with significant bleeding, Kozlowsky said.

According to Kozlowsky, the kitten's cause of death was trauma to the left body wall and pulmonary hemorrhage.

Kozlowsky also noted that there was evidence of blunt force trauma and that it was “highly unlikely that the kitten was killed by another animal.”

Bakota was charged with first-degree malicious killing of an animal. According to Kozlowsky, he was being held on $25,000 bond and arraigned in court Friday morning.