The Salt Lake County District Attorney declined to file charges against a Cottonwood Heights police officer who shot and killed an 18-year-old armed robbery suspect in May.
Officer Casey Davies fatally shot Zane Anthony James after the teenager led officers on a chase. Davies didn’t give a statement to the district attorney’s office, but prosecutors deemed the May 29 shooting justified based on interviews with other officers at the scene, photos and video footage of the shooting, District Attorney Sim Gill announced Tuesday in a letter to Cottonwood Heights Police Chief Robby Russo.
An internal investigation by the police department found Davies “acted within policy and with the boundaries of the law,” according to a news release.