CLARKSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - A prosecutor has decided that the fatal shooting of a southern Indiana man by a police officer after the man refused to drop a gun was justified.
Clark County Prosecutor Jeremy Mull reviewed the investigation from Indiana State Police and determined that no charges would be filed in the death of 43-year-old Max David Helton of Clarksville.
Officers responded to a 911 call April 26 about a man who was inside a Clarksville house with a gun and another person. State police say Helton was shot by Clarksville Patrolman Tyler Ash. The review concluded that Ash “properly used deadly force” when Helton pointed a gun at the officer after being told to drop the weapon.
Helton was pronounced dead at a hospital in nearby Louisville, Kentucky.
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