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The Larimer County District Attorney’s Office says a man shot by a Fort Collins police officer while holding a pellet gun was attempting “suicide by cop.”
25-year-old . He is recovering and will be jailed on suspicion of felony menacing with a deadly weapon and attempting to influence a public servant.
District Attorney Cliff Riedel says in an opinion released Tuesday that Officer Matthew Brede acted lawfully in shooting Snodgrass as the suspect walked toward him while pointing a pellet gun at him.
The opinion says Snodgrass admitted to luring police to his home with a false report that his roommate had been stabbed. Riedel says Snodgrass lied to get officers to shoot him because he did not want to live anymore.
