The Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office announced Thursday that an investigation into the fatal January shooting of a man by San Jose police officers has led to the determination that the shooting was lawful.
Prosecutors said Carter fired his handgun at approaching patrol cars after he crashed and had crawled out of the vehicle, and an officer"heard the bullet whizz past his head."
Carter shot at police and was hit with a volley of bullets from at least four officers, who hit him nine times. Officers repeatedly had asked him to drop his weapon and he had not, the district attorney's report concluded. There were so many officers firing guns, prosecutors said, that they became confused about some of the shots and assumed they were coming at them from Carter, when in fact they were being fired by fellow officers.
After Guy's discharge of his weapon, Carter went down, but he still did not drop his gun. At that point, all three officers fired a total of 51 rounds at him in 12 seconds. A woman identified as"Jane Doe" talked with investigators from the District Attorney's Office and said she had known Carter for most of his life. She expressed anger that the officers shot at him so many times because"she believed Carter only had one bullet in his gun." But she did agree that Carter had put himself in a position where"he gave officers no choice but to use deadly force against him.
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