Updated at 1:30 p.m. with information from a court hearing
Jeremy Raskiewicz, 46, has been charged with deliberate homicide.
According to the Great Falls Police Department, officers were dispatched around 1:30 a.m. Oct. 31 for a welfare check in the 2300 block of 11th Avenue South.
Raskiewicz was booked into the Cascade County Adult Detention Center at 10:32 a.m. Oct. 31 on a deliberate homicide charge and violations of his conditions of release.
He was booked on a $750,000 bond.
Raskiewicz made an initial appearance in district court on Nov. 2 before Judge John Parker.
He said he’d need a public defender.
Mark Frisbie, a defense attorney handling initial appearances on Monday asked the court to maintain the state’s bond request of $750,000 until counsel could be appointed and a formal bail hearing scheduled, but asked that bond not be increased.
Parker increased his bond to $1 million.
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Preston Rammell, a deputy county attorney handling initials, said that his office asked for the $750,000 due to his criminal history and “considerable amount of public safety concern.” He said that Raskiewicz “has been violent or admitted to violent acts in the past.”
Parker said the charges were “profoundly serious,” and while the new homicide charge wasn’t yet proven, the inference was Raskiewicz had a history of “abysmal compliance” with court conditions since he was out pending sentencing in another violent case and “has allegedly ended another human life.”
According to court documents, a dispatch was notified of a male lying face down in a pool of blood behind Carquest.
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When officers arrived, they found Anthony Littleplume deceased with injuries to his face and a throat laceration, according to court documents.
Littleplume’s wife told investigators that they had some to Great Falls from Browning to detox. When they arrived, Littleplume was arrested on Oct. 29 for criminal trespass and went to jail. When he got out of jail around 11:20 a.m. Oct. 30, he and his wife were in the area between Albertsons and Target on 10th Avenue South.
Later that evening, she had gone to the area behind Carquest while Littleplume stayed to panhandle, according to court documents.
She told investigators that while she was behind Carquest, Littleplume had arrived with a man later identified as Raskiewicz. She recognized him from a previous incident in Great Falls in which she said Raskiewicz had assaulted her in 2024.
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She asked Littleplume why he’d brought Raskiewicz and if he remembered that Raskiewicz had previously hit her.
She said she had a liter bottle of liquor that the three were drinking and listening to music when Raskiewicz started calling Littleplume names and telling him to get up and fight.
Littleplume’s wife said Littleplume was drunk and couldn’t stay standing when Raskiewicz hit him multiple times and Littleplume kept falling down. She told investigators that Raskiewicz stomped on Littleplume’s head twice and she told them to quit fighting, according to court documents.
She said she had turned over to lay down to sleep and believed the two men had left. She was later woken by law enforcement officers.
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A couple contacted law enforcement officers. They had been visiting her father at Benefis Health System but were told to leave since visitors weren’t allowed after 11 p.m. She said they were going to walk toward Parkdale when she remembered Littleplume’s wife likes to sleep at a nearby tree and that Littleplume likes to fight when drunk.
When they arrived, Littleplume, his wife and Raskiewicz were sitting at the tree. Littleplume was yelling at Raskiewicz and the couple tried to calm them down but didn’t want to be involved, so they left to go downtown. The couple returned about two hours later and found Littleplume in a pool of blood and his wife asleep under a blanket at the tree, according to court documents.
While officers were on scene, dispatch told them Benefis security had called about a male on the fourth floor of the south tower refusing to leave.
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Two Cascade County deputies responded and found Raskiewicz outside sleeping on the ground with blood around his nose and on his jacket. His hands appeared to be clean but with a fresh swipe of blood on them, according to court documents.
Deputies found a generic buck knife with a wooden handle in Raskiewicz’s pocket.
He was taken to the police department for questioning, where officers found a bottle of alcohol in his pocket and blood on his cell phone. Officers observed another object in his pocket and asked him to unzip his jacket, where officers saw more blood on his sweatshirt, according to court documents.
Security footage showed Raskiewicz arriving at the Benefis south tower entrance at 12:45 a.m. Oct. 31.
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While being interviewed, Rasckiwicz said something to the effect of “I’m a professional killer and I’m hired to kill people,” according to court documents.
According to court records, he was released from county jail on Sept. 10 after signing a nolo contendere plea agreement in a felony assault with a weapon case.
In that case, he was charged in February, committed to the Montana State Hospital in April and the court considered his fitness to proceed.
On Oct. 20, a pre-sentence investigation was filed in the case.
In August 2025, a warrant was issued for Raskiewicz for violating his probation conditions since he was drunk in the Target parking lot and took a swing at and tried to fight a 17-year-old.
In 2018, according to local reporting, Raskiewicz was charged with a felony in Nashua, New Hampshire for threatening to blow up the National Guard armory there.
In 2005, Raskiewicz was charged with attempted homicide in Kalispell with another transient for assaulting a third transient over a beer debt, according to local reporting at the time. He was 24 at the time.
He was convicted of assault with a weapon and his mental health was in question during that case, according to court records.
