No charges in fatal police shooting of mentally ill Black man, district attorney says
No charges will be brought against two Walnut Creek, California, police officers who fatally shot a 23-year-old Black man in June 2019.
The Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office announced Friday it had concluded there was insufficient evidence to prosecute the two officers who shot Miles Hall, whose family has said he was in the midst of a mental health episode.
Hall’s mother, Taun Hall, expressed her disappointment in a statement Friday, saying, “After nearly two long years of waiting anxiously for the conclusion of what we had hoped would be a thorough, unbiased, factually accurate investigation, we learned that there will be no justice and no accountability for the indefensible actions that resulted in our son’s death at least not today.”
The shooting occurred in a residential neighborhood on a Sunday afternoon after Hall s grandmother called 911 to report Hall had threatened her, according to police. Minutes later, Hall s mother called police also saying he threatened her, and she told them about his mental illness.
Responding officers found Hall walking along a nearby street carrying a crowbar, and police said he refused to listen to commands to drop the crowbar. He then charged at officers, police said.
Bean bag rounds were fired at Hall first but had little to no effect, which resulted in two officers firing their handguns at Hall, police said. Hall was then taken to a hospital, where he later died.
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The attorney for a Filipino man killed by a Danville, California, police officer in 2018 said the delay until last week in prosecuting the officer for the 2018 shooting allowed the same officer to go on to gun down a Black man last month.
Civil rights attorney John Burris is representing the mother of 33-year-old Laudemer Arboleda, an unarmed Filipino man who was fatally shot by Danville officer Andrew Hall in 2018.
Tyrell Wilson, 32, was fatally shot by Andrew Hall on March 11 after being suspected of throwing rocks onto the freeway. Body camera footage of the shooting was released on Wednesday, April 21. (Photos: Contra Costa Sheriff’s Department/YouTube screenshots)
A 2018 slow traffic pursuit in
Danville, California turned fatal when prosecutors say a police officer unjustifiably shot a man nine times. Over two years later, former deputy
Andrew Hall is being charged with felony voluntary manslaughter and felony assault with a semi-automatic firearm for the shooting death of 33 year-old
Laudemer Arboleda.
“Officer Hall used unreasonable and unnecessary force when he responded to the in-progress traffic pursuit involving Laudemer Arboleda, endangering not only Mr. Arboleda’s life but the lives of his fellow officers and citizens in the immediate area,” Contra Costa County
District Attorney Diana Becton said in a statement on Wednesday.