No charges for Denver officers in May downtown shooting

DENVER (KDVR) — District Attorney John Walsh announced that an investigation into a pair of officers who fired shots at a suspect in downtown Denver in May will not lead to charges.

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According to a release, Walsh said that Officers Conor Miller and Andrew Ulum’s actions were lawful and legal under Colorado law.

The shooting occurred just before 2 a.m. on May 3, when both officers were alerted to a report of a gunshot near the intersection of 16th and California Streets, and shortly after, a 27-year-old man told 911 operators that he had been shot.

According to the release, Officers Miller and Ulum were in a marked police vehicle and headed towards the scene when a man stopped them, pointed toward a man later identified as 24-year-old Luis Johnson, saying that Johnson had just shot his son…

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