No charges will be filed against a Utah Highway Patrol trooper who deployed his TASER during a chase, causing a man to fall nearly 30 feet to his death in October, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill announced Friday.
On Oct. 13, first responders received multiple calls reporting a man, later identified as Anthony James Valdez, who was on the highway.
When officers eventually located Valdez, he began running away before climbing an embankment east of the freeway and onto the 600 North off-ramp. The trooper then approached Valdez as he was sitting on the edge of the roadway and deployed his TASER as Valdez began to run again. Valdez then fell 21 feet and 8 inches and was pronounced dead at the scene…