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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - There volition beryllium nary transgression charges filed against an serviceman who was progressive successful a shooting successful Fresno that killed 27-year-old Austin Flores successful May of 2022, the California Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
On May 19, 2022, astatine 11:22 a.m. officers from the Fresno Police Department's Central Policing District were dispatched to West Cortland Avenue for a telephone of a usurpation of a restraining order, constabulary say.
According to officials, Flores' mother, who was the reporting party, advised dispatch that her lad violated a restraining bid and was successful her backyard, wrong a vehicle.
Police accidental she told dispatch that Flores had brandished a firearm and told her helium was acceptable if the constabulary came for him.
According to police, a perimeter was established astir the location erstwhile they arrived. Police accidental Flores became alert of the constabulary beingness and fled the conveyance helium was successful and pointed what an serviceman believed to beryllium a firearm astatine him. Officers past opened occurrence astatine Flores arsenic helium was holding the firearm.
The DOJ says the serviceman changeable astatine Flores 9 times. Police accidental Flores was taken to the infirmary wherever helium aboriginal died from his injuries.
Police accidental pursuing the shooting, they determined that the firearm Flores had been holding during the incident was a replica gun.
The California Department of Justice is required to analyse each officer-involved shootings that conscionable the guidelines established successful California Assembly Bill 1506.
In the released report from the state's DOJ connected Wednesday it states that transgression charges were not due successful this lawsuit due to the fact that the grounds is insufficient to beryllium that the serviceman committed a crime.
