ALBANY — The state attorney general’s office said its investigation of a fatal motor vehicle incident last year involving an off-duty Colonie police officer has determined that “criminal charges are not warranted in this case.”
The police officer, Jason Tusch, was driving southbound on Old Loudon Road in Latham when his four-door sedan collided with 65-year-old John Bonds, who was struck from behind as he was pushing a shopping cart in the middle of the driving lane.
Bonds was walking with his back to traffic in the southbound lane, wearing nonreflective clothing in a darkened section of the road between two streetlights. Bonds died on June 2, 2025, five days after the collision. Moments before Tusch’s vehicle struck Bonds, an SUV drove around him in the southbound lane…