Anchorage officer’s fatal shooting of teenager was ‘legally justified,’ state says

State prosecutors will not be bringing charges against an Anchorage police officer who shot and killed a teenager in August. In a brief statement Monday, officials with the state Office of Special Prosecutions wrote that officer Alexander Roman was legally justified in fatally shooting 16-year-old Easter Leafa. Roman was one of the officers who went to Leafa’s home on Aug. 13 after a family member called 911 and said Leafa was threatening others with a knife. Her family has said they never expected police to respond and shoot Leafa. Her death has drawn widespread community outrage.

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