No criminal charges will be filed against police who fatally shot a man in Evans.
Kenneth Yeager died May 16 when officers with the Evans Police Department fired on a parked car Yeager was sitting in, from which he pointed a gun at police, according to a media release from the Weld County District Attorney’s Office.
“Believing their lives were in danger, officers fired at Mr. Yeager,” said the district attorney’s office, which cleared the officers of any criminal wrongdoing.
According to the DA’s office, dispatchers received a call at about 3:45 a.m. on a report of shots fired at 675 31st St., the Double Clutch Cafe.
An officer was called to the business earlier on a welfare check where an “agitated” Yeager was observed, according to investigators.
During the second call to the cafe, “officers gave numerous instructions to Mr. Yeager, including asking him to exit his car, to which Mr. Yeager did not respond,” the DA’s office said.
Several law enforcement agencies responded, including Evans, Greeley, Miliken, Ault and Johnstown police departments, along with the Weld County Sheriff’s Office and sheriff’s SWAT members.
Just before 6 a.m., about two hours after arriving, officers watched Yeager roll down his car window and point a gun in their direction, according to an investigative report on the shooting.
Four officers fired their weapons, hitting Yeager three times including a fatal shot to his head.
Yeager was pronounced dead a short time later at North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley.
Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com.
