FORT COLLINS, Colo.—A Larimer County Sheriff’s deputy has been cleared in the fatal shooting of a man in his rural mountain home earlier this month.
The Fort Collins Coloradoan reports ( ) District Attorney Clifford Riedel has determined that Deputy Shane Clymer was legally justified in killing 60-year-old Louis James Skelly while responding to a disturbance at Skelly’s home near Red Feather Lakes on June 3.
Authorities say Skelly opened fire on Clymer and a fellow deputy as they approached his home after he made 13 calls to 911 in about two hours with complaints about a neighbor and other issues. Clymer returned fire, striking Skelly three times.
Riedel says any reasonable person in Clymer’s position would have been in fear of being shot and killed.
Clymer and the other deputy weren’t injured.
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Information from: Fort Collins Coloradoan,
