Sheriff’s Office expects to turn over investigation into fatal police shooting to DA next week
Emotions were high on Monday, when a protest that started at City Hall and ended at the CSPD Police Operations Center turned hostile. On Saturday, a nineteen-year-old African American man was shot by a member of the Colorado Springs Police Dept. The young man was identified by his family as De'Von Bailey. A protest starting at the Colorado Springs City Hall ended up at the Police Operations Center where protesters stood at the glass doors and yelled at the CSPD police officers inside to protest the killing of Bailey. Eventually, the riot police were called in to disperse the crowd with a standoff occurring in the street in front of the P.O.C. Monday, August 5, 2019. (Photo by Jerilee Bennett, The Gazette)
JERILEE BENNETT THE GAZETTE
The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday that it expects to finish its investigation into the fatal shooting of an armed robbery suspect by Colorado Springs police by the end of next week.
The findings would be turned over to the 4th Judicial District Attorney’s Office, which will issue a determination whether the shooting was justified and if officers involved will face criminal charges. There is no timetable for when the determination will be made.
De’Von Bailey, 19, was shot and killed Saturday evening while fleeing from officers who had been questioning him on the street near Adams Elementary School in the K-land neighborhood southeast of Memorial Park.
Colorado Springs police-involved shooting of De’Von Bailey
According to police, Bailey reached for a weapon in the waistband of his shorts and was shot by at least one officer. Several witnesses, however, have said they did not see Bailey with a gun before he was shot in the back while trying to escape.
Surveillance video from a nearby apartment building shows Bailey running, then falling to the ground while pursued by two police officers with their guns drawn.
Newly obtained surveillance video shows two white Colorado Springs police officers chase De’Von Bailey, 19, as he runs, then falls after being shot in the back. Bailey died later in a hospital, police said. Click here to read the full story and click here to see continuing full coverage.
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Police have said the officers were wearing body cameras, but authorities have declined to release the video from them.
Protesters have leveled claims of police brutality in the killing of the black teenager, who was facing charges of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust at the time of his death.
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