The Salt Lake County District Attorney has ruled that two police officers were justified when they shot Andrey Tkachenko to death in a Salt Lake City parking lot in October 2018.
“Based on the evidence presented to us,” said Sim Gill, “we do not intend to file any criminal charges” against Detective Jerry Valdez of the Unified Police Department and Detective Nick Stidham of the Saratoga Springs Police Department.
The evidence — including physical and photographic evidence, and statements from witnesses and officers — convinced Gill and his staff that the detectives “would be able to claim successfully at trial that each believed that the use of deadly force was necessary to prevent death or serious bodily injury.