Convicted Cat Killer Sought In Homicide, Nabbed At Enfield Burger King

ENFIELD, CT — Enfield police armed with an out-of-state murder warrant arrested a convicted felon late Thursday afternoon at his place of employment at a local fast food restaurant.

Around 5:34 p.m., police took Timothy Olschafskie, 30, into custody at the Burger King on Elm Street. An arrest warrant out of Wilmington, Delaware indicated Olschafskie is wanted for first-degree "murder by abuse or neglect," Police Chief Alaric Fox said.

He was held as a fugitive from justice on a $1 million bond, and is scheduled to be arraigned Friday in Hartford Superior Court.

A message from Patch to Wilmington Police Department public information officer David Karas seeking additional information about the Delaware homicide case has not yet been returned.

Olschafskie pleaded guilty in 2015 to five felony counts of maliciously killing an animal. According to the Associated Press, he was charged in the deaths of seven cats two years earlier, and admitted killing five. Police said the cats suffered blunt force trauma, bone fractures, lacerations to internal organs and skin torn from their bodies.

Authorities said the killings happened when Olschafskie was staying at the Windsor Locks home of his fiancee’s family, which had taken in the felines from an animal rescue program, the Associated Press reported.

When convicted, he received a five-year prison sentence, suspended after two years, plus five years' probation, according to judicial records.