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DENVER—Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey says he won’t file charges against a police officer who fatally shot a man last month.
Officer Kevin Ford shot 29-year-old Nicholas Alvarado Morales at an intersection Dec. 13.
Morrissey said in a letter to Police Chief Gerald Whitman that prosecutors couldn’t prove beyond a reasonable doubt that it was unreasonable for Ford to fire the fatal shot.
Morrissey wrote that Ford was responding to reports of shots fired when he saw Morales, who had raised his gun toward Ford just before fired.
Morrissey wrote that, “Morales’ armed, non-compliant, life-threatening response to the police contact forced Officer Ford to shoot him.”
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