A lawyer for one of two law enforcement officers charged in the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old man who was stranded on a highway in a small mountain town and who had a “mental health crisis” last year is trying for the charges to be dropped. out against him.
Attorney Christopher T. Brousseau, representing Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Kyle Gould told a judge in court on Monday that there were no grounds to charge Gould with a crime. He said Gould was not among the officers who responded to help Christian Glass after his vehicle got stuck in the former mining town of Silver Plume in June.
Brousseau said Gould only gave advice to the other officer accused of shooting Glass, Andrew Buen, based on information he provided. Gould was off duty and at his home at the time, Brousseau said, echoing arguments he made in a motion to dismiss the charges filed last week.
Prosecutors did not respond to the argument during the hearing in Idaho Springs. Judge Catherine Cheroutes said she would give the district attorney’s office until February 14 to respond in writing to Brousseau’s arguments.
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Gould was charged with reckless endangerment and criminally negligent homicide in Glass’s death, drawing national attention and prompting calls for policing reforms focused on crisis intervention.
The attorney for two Denver, Colorado police officers is pushing to have them fired in the case of fatally shooting a stranded man. The victim was having a “mental health crisis” and was shot five times.
Glass, who called police to help get his Honda Pilot off the ground, appeared to be “paranoid” and having a “mental health crisis,” according to the indictment. After authorities broke a window in his vehicle, Glass brandished a knife in “a state of complete panic and self-defense,” and Buen shot Glass five times, according to the indictment.
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Gould gave officers permission to break a vehicle window as a last resort, but could not have foreseen a series of events that preceded the shooting, including Glass holding a knife and another officer getting too close to Glass, Brousseau said in the filing. In the past week. .
