KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The family of a man who was shot and killed by police in 2025 is taking legal action against the city of Lenexa and officers with the city’s police department.
The lawsuit comes after the Johnson County, Kansas, District Attorney’s Office said in October 2025 that no charges would be filed against the Lenexa police officers involved in the shooting.
On June 22, 2025, police were called to an apartment complex in the 12400 block of West 97th Terrace for a person armed with a gun.
Responding officers found a man, Jose Enrique Cartagena-Chacon, 24, of Grandview, in a vehicle with a gun, later identified as a CO2-powered pellet gun.
Body camera footage of the incident showed Cartagena-Chacon failing to respond to officers’ commands to not touch the gun, and he picked it up and motioned it toward the passenger side of the vehicle where an officer was located. The officer on the driver’s side of the vehicle fired multiple shots at Cartagena-Chacon and fatally wounded him.
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In the complaint filed June 21, Cartagena-Chacon’s family is seeking compensatory and punitive damages, among other requests, for his death and the loss his family continues to suffer. It is against the city, officer Nicholas Gaul, officer Alexander Clark and unknown police officers.
The suit claims excessive deadly force, unlawful seizure, failure to intervene, assault and battery, wrongful death, survival action, intentional infliction of emotional distress, respondent superior and indemnification.
The lawsuit said Cartagena-Chacon was sleeping in his car and “posed no threat to any of the officers” when two officers, Gaul and Clark, approached his vehicle and drew their guns.
It further claims the use of deadly force was not justified, and Gaul and Clark were not "held accountable for their actions."
The family is asking for a jury trial in the lawsuit.
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