The Johnson County district attorney has found that a Shawnee police officer was justified to use deadly force in exchanging gunfire with a 19-year-old the officer was trying to take into custody earlier this year.
The officer “lawfully used deadly force to defend himself and others against an imminent and actual threat of death or great bodily harm,” Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe concluded in a report released Wednesday. “His use of deadly force was therefore lawful and justified under Kansas law.”
Isaac Alfonso Ortiz faces charges of attempted capital murder of a law enforcement officer and interference with a law enforcement officer in the incident that happened the morning of June 17…