DENVER—The Denver district attorney says he won’t file criminal charges against an officer who shot a man who allegedly came up to his marked patrol car and swung a hammer into the driver’s side window as the officer sat inside.
District Attorney Mitch Morrissey told Police Chief Robert White in a letter Tuesday that officer Sean Cronin acted justifiably in self-defense.
Morrissey wrote that Cronin was about to make a phone call as he was parked outside a Kmart store around 1:30 p.m. Dec. 4 when James Bo-Rain Bradley approached the car. Cronin says he saw Bradley swinging a hammer and fired his gun as the hammer struck his window.
Cronin fired five rounds overall.
Bradley survived and is facing felony charges over the encounter.
