San Diego (CNS)-The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office issued a report on Friday stating that 20 local police officers will not face criminal charges related to five shooting incidents involving police officers, four of which resulted in deaths.

The report investigated in detail the July 2020 shooting incidents involving highway patrol personnel in San Diego, Chula Vista, and California.

Two of the cases involved the suspect shooting at the police. One of the men pointed an air gun at the police officer, and the other man ran towards the police officer with a metal rod. The last case involved a man who was shot and killed in a cross-county car chase. He pointed a black object at the police and found it was a toothbrush.

The shooting incidents include:

On July 9, 2020, 49-year-old Richard Price was shot dead in City Heights

price Shot and killed by seven San Diego police officers According to DA’s review, after a police officer answered the 911 call, a man pointed a gun at someone on Menlo Avenue. Police said Price was holding a pistol in his hand when he was found. According to the DA office, he put down the pistol and was ordered to stay away from it, but he reached out and picked it up and pointed it at the police officer.

He was shot multiple times and was taken to the University of California San Diego Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 4:24 pm

DA’s comments stated that the imitation firearm looked exactly like a Glock 17 pistol, so the police officer “has reason to believe” that the gun Price pointed at them was genuine.

The officers involved are San Diego Police Joshua Crabbe, Ace Ibanez, Jason Gonzalez, Kevin Cummings, Miles McCadler, David Burns And Joshua Leber.

On July 5, 2020, 25-year-old Keith Bergman (Keith Bergman) was shot in a non-fatal shooting in Port Salisbury at the San Diego Police Headquarters

After his arrest, Bergman slid his handcuffs out of a patrol SUV parked at the SDPD underground guard port, broke the partition between the back and front seats, and put his hand on a gun in the officer’s kit .

Once the police officer realized that Bergman had a gun, surveillance and body camera footage released by the department showed that several police officers pulled out their guns and surrounded the vehicle while ordering Bergman to put down the gun.

Bergman A shot was fired from the rear window of the patrol car The police opened fire and hit him in the upper body. Bergman shot but didn’t hit the police officer. Bergman then got out of the car, carrying the police officer’s bag on his shoulder and the gun tucked in his belt.

He tried to open the rear door of the SUV, but could not open it, then tried to open the driver’s door and fired three bullets in his direction. Surveillance video showed that when Bergman put his head into the open window of the SUV, the shot penetrated the cruiser’s windshield.

The gunfire knocked Bergman to the ground, but he tried to open the driver’s door again and fired another shot in his direction.

Bergman later pleaded guilty to charges including assaulting a sheriff with a semi-automatic gun, and was sentenced to 10 years in state prison in February.

The DA’s review found that Bergman’s shooting indicated that the officers were “defending themselves and the officers in the port.”

The police officers involved were San Diego police officers Timothy Aleola, Michael Rodriguez and Paul Yi.

On October 3, 2020, 30-year-old Christopher Ulmer was fatally shot on Interstate 805 in Chula Vista

Ulmer is Shot by four California Highway Patrol and two San Diego police officers After the police started the hunt from Orange County.

Ulmer fled from officials who tried to stop him from driving under the influence. The chase continued south into San Diego County and eventually stopped on Interstate 805 near Olympic Park Avenue.

According to DA’s review, Ulmer opened the driver’s side door but stayed in the car, and the police told him to raise his hands and get out of the car.

A few minutes later, Ulmer got out of the car “suddenly” and pointed at the policeman with “a black slender object” while posing in a “shooting pose.”

He was shot multiple times at the University of California San Diego Hospital at 2:09 am and was pronounced dead. A search of Ulmer and his car did not find a gun, but a black toothbrush was found under him.

The DA’s review stated that Ulmer had “taken deliberate action to convince the police officers that he would shoot them” and that they “reasonably believed that Ulmer was an imminent threat.”

The police officers involved included CHP officers Lauren Chi, John Holm, Paco Mendes and Javier Mendoza, and San Diego officers Patrick Harvey and Edward Pidgeon.

On July 20, 2020, Chula Vista police shot and killed 33-year-old David Angulo

Angulo Fired at police after kidnapping a driver and leading an officer chased by the police, And then was shot many times. According to the police, Angulo was the suspect in three shootings. He had an arrest warrant, which included attempted murder.

DA’s comments stated that during the hunt, Angulo ran into another car, got off the pickup he stole, and tried to enter a nearby home.

According to the DA office, when the police arrived, Angulo fired at one of the policemen, prompting three policemen to shoot him and kill him, the office said, “according to their time.”

The names of the three Chula Vista police officers were not included in the DA’s review.

On October 19, 2020, 39-year-old Jose Alfredo Castro was shot and killed in Mountain View

The police responded after a woman called the police saying that her roommate Castro was using metal curtain rods to break the windows of their home.Police say Castro Ran out of the house with a metal rod on his head And rushed to the officer “directly”.

DA’s review stated that San Diego police officer Isai Castillo fired his pistol, while the other two police officers fired with stun guns and bean bags.

Castro was taken to the hospital, where he later died.

The prosecutor’s office stated that “Castro’s actions indicated that he tried to attack and harm Castillo and the police officer” and therefore “behaved reasonably”.

The following month, Castro’s family filed claims against the city for excessive use of force and negligent death. They claimed that Castro was experiencing a mental health crisis and that non-lethal options should be used.

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