Denver District Attorney John Walsh announced Thursday that Denver Police Department officers were justified in the shooting of a man holding a BB gun a month prior.
Cpl. Valentin Kerchev, as well as Officers Jonathan Hayes and Randall Wells shot and injured 62-year-old Allan Scott while responding to an Aug. 25 call that Scott was pointing a pistol at oncoming traffic from a parking lot in the 1200 block of West Alameda Avenue, according to a news release from the Denver District Attorney’s Office.
The investigation into the incident later determined that Scott was holding a P-22 bb gun that looked like a 9mm semi-automatic pistol, authorities said…