POCATELLO, Idaho — Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador's office said it will not seek criminal charges against four Pocatello police officers who shot a nonverbal teenager with autism, who later died , while responding to a call in April.

"The death of 17-year-old Victor Perez was a tragedy," Deputy Attorney General Jeff Nye wrote in a letter outlining the outcome on Wednesday.

He added: "The State would be unable to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the four officers who discharged their weapons were not justified in using deadly force. We will thus not file criminal charges against the officers."

The Eastern Idaho Critical Incident Task Force investigated the shooting. Prosecutors said they focused on what the officers reasonably knew at the time.

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