RENO, Nev. (AP) - The top prosecutor in Reno has cleared a campus police officer in the shooting of a teenager who slashed one student and waved knives at others in a high school courtyard in December 2016.
Washoe County District Attorney Chris Hicks issued a report Tuesday finding that Officer Cory Coombes was justified in wounding then-14-year-old Logan Clark during the incident at Hug High School.
Clark was arrested on an unrelated firearm charge, but he was sent to a treatment center in Texas after a psychological evaluation determined he wasn’t competent for trial.
Hicks says more than 100 witnesses were interviewed, and investigators viewed cellphone video as part of his prosecutorial review.
He says Coombes encountered a “grim situation” with people in danger and wounded Clark with one gunshot after Clark refused multiple commands to drop the knives.
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