A Wellington City officer told a reportedly suicidal man multiple times to drop his knives and that he didn’t want to shoot him before ultimately firing multiple rounds, killing the man who approached the officer with at least one weapon, video footage released Friday shows.
Carbon County Attorney Jeremiah C. Humes wrote in a letter released the same day that he wouldn’t be filing charges against the shooting officer, identified only as Officer Safley.
The just more than eight minutes of video from the fatal Sept. 10, 2018, confrontation begins inside Safley’s police vehicle and follows him as he exits the vehicle and finds Bobby Ray Duckworth, 26, in a field near a fishing pond and railroad tracks.