DA’s office declines to prosecute Multnomah County Sheriff’s deputy who shot armed suspect in June

The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office on Thursday announced it was declining to prosecute a Multnomah County Sheriff’s deputy who shot an armed suspect on June 6.

Senior Deputy District Attorney Brian Davidson concluded in a six-page report that Deputy Matthew Hansen’s shooting of Luis Adrian Cervantes-Santiago in Northeast Portland was “justified under Oregon criminal law and is not criminal.”

Cervantes-Santiago survived the shooting, but was left paralyzed from the waist down…

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