Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Bristol DA finds police shooting was justified

The Bristol County District Attorney's office has issued their report on the fatal shooting by Dartmouth Police on August 11, 2009. The DA found the shooting "was justified and lawful, and did not violate any General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts".
You can read the full report at this link.
This was a traumatic, tragic and unfortunate event for all involved and I hope this is another step toward closure. Thanks to DA Sutter's office for their thorough investigation and report.
I am turning off the comments for this post and ...

... would appreciate if you would refrain from commenting at other posts. I have posted the above report so that the public can have access to the full details.
A federal lawsuit has been filed in this case and is still pending.

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