Colorado deputies indicted in killing of 22-year-old Christian Glass ask for charges to be dismissed

The 2 Clear Creek County sheriff’s deputies indicted within the deadly capturing of 22-year-old Christian Glass final 12 months are difficult the costs in opposition to them, saying prosecutors don’t have sufficient proof in opposition to them.

Attorneys for Kyle Gould filed a movement Friday asking the choose overseeing the previous sergeant’s case to dismiss the 2 costs in opposition to him: criminally negligent murder and reckless endangerment. Gould was off-duty on the time of the June 11 killing however licensed the regulation enforcement officers on scene to interrupt the window to Glass’s automobile.

Clear Creek County deputies indicted, fired in connection to capturing that killed Christian Glass

Glass known as 911 after he crashed his automobile on an embankment in Silver Plume and informed the call-taker he was afraid of “skinwalkers” and folks chasing him. He sat within the driver’s seat whereas officers for greater than an hour tried to coax him out of the automobile earlier than deciding to forcibly take away him, prompting Glass to seize a knife and swing it at one of many officers who was standing outdoors the rear driver’s-side window.

One of many Clear Creek deputies on scene, Andrew Buen, then shot and killed Glass.

Christian Glass acted in self-defense, didn’t pose menace, in line with indictment

The grand jury that indicted Gould and Buen in November discovered that Glass acted in self-defense and wouldn’t have posed a menace to anybody had Gould not licensed the breach. There was no possible trigger that Glass dedicated any crime and there was no motive to detain him, the grand jury discovered.

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