KANSAS CITY, Mo. — No charges will be filed against Lenexa police officers who struck and killed a man on June 22 while investigating a report of an armed subject at a Lenexa apartment complex.
Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe has called a news conference for 2 p.m. Thursday to discuss his conclusions. You can watch the news conference in the video player below starting around 2 p.m.
Around 3 a.m. on June 22, Lenexa police were called to respond to a report of a person armed with a gun at an apartment complex in the 12400 block of W. 97th Terrace.
Two officers arrived on the scene a short time later and located a car with its lights on and a Hispanic male in the driver's seat.
As the officers came closer, they spotted a handgun, later identified as a .177 caliber Umarex model Walther PPQ CO2-powered pellet gun, in the lap of the driver, later identified as 25-year-old Grandview resident Jose Enrigue Cartagena-Chacon.
Body camera footage reviewed by the Johnson County Officer-Involved Critical Incident Investigation Team reveals Cartagena-Chacon failing to respond to officers' commands to not touch the weapon.
Instead, Cartagena-Chacon picked up the handgun and started motioning it around toward the passenger side of the car, where a second Lenexa officer was positioned.
That prompted the officer on the driver's side of the car to fire multiple shots from his weapon, fatally wounding Cartagena-Chacon.
No officers were injured in the incident.
"Objective facts supported [the officer's] belief that deadly force was necessary to protect himself and (the other officer)," Howe wrote in his conclusion. "Therefore, his use of deadly force which resulted in the death of Jose Enrique Cartagena-Chacon was justified under Kansas law."
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