The person who fatally shot a 12-year-old boy in an trade of gunfire with occupants of the person’s stolen automobile in Denver earlier this month won’t be charged.
The Feb. 5 incident occurred after the person used an app to trace his stolen automobile from the 8300 block of East Northfield Boulevard to the world of West twelfth Avenue and Decatur Avenue, the Denver Police Division said in a information launch.
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The person approached the automobile and bought into an trade of gunfire with individuals contained in the automobile, then a juvenile male, later recognized as Elias Armstrong, 12, drove the automobile to the 2900 block of West tenth Avenue, the place police discovered him with a gunshot wound. Elias was taken to a hospital and later died.
The person who shot Elias, who has not been recognized, was not arrested, police mentioned, and a spokesperson for the Denver District Legal professional’s Workplace mentioned in an emailed assertion the workplace won’t file prices as prosecutors don’t imagine they may show the person’s guilt past an affordable doubt.
“We’ve an moral obligation to solely file a case if we imagine we will show guilt past an affordable doubt,” Carolyn Tyler, with the Denver District Legal professional’s Workplace, mentioned.