“Those facts support the conclusion that a homicide occurred. He said two of the shots from those officers hit Castro in the head and chest, killing him. However, the chief prosecutor said, Dauterman concluded that those two wounds did not kill King.īradley said a review of the facts shows that DPS officers used deadly force against Castro by firing their weapons during an attempt to arrest him on March 12, 2020, on a felony warrant for a violent crime. “These facts make it very likely that the gunshot to King’s chest came from Castro,” he said.Īt this point, Bradley said, there is insufficient information available to identify the source of the other two shots. In addition, Bradley said, the track of the bullet through the body was at an angle consistent with the observed position of Castro’s handgun. Dauterman concluded that it was the chest wound that killed King.īradley said King’s chest wound showed signs of soot and gunpowder burns, resulting from the firearm either being in contact with or being very near her body. Bradley said the gunshots causing those injuries came from the officers.Īt this point, Bradley said, there is insufficient information to identify the specific officer responsible for each gunshot.Īs for King, Dauterman identified three gunshot wounds on her body-in the chest, left arm, and left pelvis. Dauterman concluded that it was the injuries to the head and heart that killed Castro. King, on March 24, 2020.ĭauterman identified four gunshot wounds on Castro’s body-in the head, chest, stomach, and between the chest and stomach. Philip Dauterman, a pathologist at the Commonwealth Health Center, later performed an autopsy on Castro and his girlfriend, then-32-year-old Kisha Lyn M. “Any reasonable trier of fact is likely to conclude that the officers were justified by the defense of use of force to make arrest,” he said.īradley said that, given the overwhelming evidence supporting the defense of use of force to make arrest, no further analysis is required relevant to the defense of self-defense with deadly force.ĭr. The chief prosecutor said the circumstances meet the conditions required by law for the officers to use deadly force to make an arrest. Upon the officers entering the bedroom, Castro again failed to surrender and immediately began firing a handgun at the officers. In his findings, Bradley said the incident happened as the officers were executing an arrest warrant on Castro and that he fired at the officers to stop them from arresting him. Manibusan assigned Bradley, assisted by the AG Investigation Division, to independently review the circumstances surrounding the Department of Public Safety officers’ use of deadly force. Bradley said the officers were authorized by law to exercise deadly force by firing their weapons.
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