COLTON, Calif. (AP) - Criminal charges won’t be filed against two Southern California police officers who shot the driver of a stolen car after he rammed a police vehicle.
The San Bernardino County district attorney’s office released a report Thursday. It concludes that the July 2012 shooting was justified because the driver was using deadly force to escape and could have injured or killed someone.
Police in Colton had spotted the stolen car and chased it into neighboring San Bernardino, where the driver reversed and rammed a patrol car. Later, the car crashed into a fence but the driver again reversed and backed into a police SUV before he was shot.
Twenty-seven-year-old Tremayne Williams of Rialto died at the scene. A woman passenger in the car was wounded in the shoulder.
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