DENVER (AP) — A former Colorado sheriff’s deputy was convicted Thursday in the shooting death of a 22-year-old man in distress who called 911 for help after his car got stuck in a small mountain community.
DENVER — A former Colorado sheriff’s deputy was convicted Thursday in the shooting death of a 22-year-old man in distress who called 911 for help after his car got stuck in a small mountain community.
Prosecutors alleged that Buen needlessly escalated a standoff with Glass, who showed signs of a mental health crisis and refused orders to get out of his SUV near the small town of Silver Plume. A second officer indicted in Glass’ death pleaded guilty previously to a misdemeanor. Charges against two other officers from the state's gaming division were dropped in December. A judge ruled that they were not covered by a Colorado law that makes it a crime for officers to fail to intervene to stop a fellow officer from using excessive force.
The officers fired bean bag rounds and shocked Glass with a Taser, but that failed to make Glass exit the car. He then took a knife he had offered to surrender at the beginning of the encounter and flung it out a rear window, which had been broken by a bean bag, toward an officer, according to the indictment. At that point Buen fired five times at him.Sally Glass said her son had depression and was diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
“Speak up and say something, and stop the onslaught,” Simon Glass, the victim's father, said in a previous interview. “None of them did what they should have done that night, and if they had, he’d be alive.”
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