DA: Greeley Police Justified In Fatal Shooting Of Armed Man

By The Associated Press
· Aug. 14, 2015, 1:35 pm

Prosecutors have determined that Greeley police officers were justified when they killed a man who shot his wife and then pointed a gun at them.

The Weld County District Attorney's Office said Thursday the officers were cleared in the June 19 shooting of 50-year-old Louis Joseph Atencio "because they reasonably believed it was necessary to defend themselves and others."

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