The San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office concluded on Friday that the three Redwood City Police Department officers who fatally shot Jose Reynaldo Lombera in November were legally justified in using deadly force and will not face criminal charges.
District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe found that Officers Jake Granado and Carlos Ordaz, and Sgt. Ruben Orozco acted in lawful self-defense and defense of others under California law, according to a letter sent Friday to Redwood City Police Chief Kristina Bell.
In the letter, Wagstaffe wrote that Orozco, Granado and Ordaz acted in a “professional, reasonable and appropriate manner” and that they “did everything in their power to avoid the lethal confrontation provoked by decedent Jose Lombera.”…