COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—An El Paso County sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot the driver of a stolen pickup truck Dec. 5 has been cleared of wrongdoing in the man’s death.
District Attorney Dan May said Monday in a report on his office’s investigation into the shooting that deputy Bradley Bengford was justified in using deadly force against 30-year-old Christopher Barnes Obertino.
The report said Bengford shot Obertino twice as Obertino repeatedly tried to run over the deputy and his partner, Glenn Boarman, with the stolen truck in a neighborhood in Colorado Springs.
Bengford and Boarman were in the area staking out a home as part of an investigation into stolen property, guns and narcotics.
At the time of his death, Obertino had several open court cases ranging from carrying a concealed weapon to drug charges.
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Information from: The Gazette,
