No charges will be filed against any of the deputies involved in the fatal shooting of Martin Wirth during a February gun battle that left an officer dead and two others wounded.
Undersheriff Dave Wohlers confirmed the decision by 11th Judicial District Attorney’s Office on Tuesday. Wohlers said Park County Sheriff Fred Wegener was notified of the decision late last week.
Officials have yet to release documents from an investigation the Feb. 24 shootout, which happened as deputies from his home in Bailey. Cpl. Nate Carrigan died in the encounter.
Wohlers said the details of a Colorado Bureau of Investigation review of the shooting will be released in the coming days or weeks.
Carrigan, 35, died of a single, high-caliber gunshot wound to his chest, . Wirth, 58, was struck by 11 bullets and had wounds — all of them of a large caliber as well — to both lungs, his neck and head.
Wirth, a police protester with known violent tendencies, shot Carrigan and two other deputies as they tried to evict him from his modest home in the snow-covered woods, authorities say. He to keep his home, but an eviction writ was issued in the days before the shooting.
Investigators have said Wirth was wielding a .45-caliber MasterPiece Arms rifle when he engaged deputies in a shootout.
On Monday, lawyers for Carrigan’s family and another deputy — Kolby Martin — who was seriously wounded in the encounter said they have filed a notice of claim putting the sheriff’s office on notice the sheriff’s office over how the eviction was carried out.
