Denver’s district attorney ruled this week that Whaylen Phares, a Denver Police Department officer, was justified in shooting Javier Nava-Carbajal in August. The ruling was released Monday.

On Aug. 22, three DPD officers were dispatched to an apartment where gunshots had been reported, on East Donald Avenue near Interstate 25.

The officers arrived at 4:05 a.m. According to DA John Walsh, one officer saw a young woman running from a man who was chasing her.

The man was later identified as 48-year-old Nava-Carbajal. The officers yelled at him to stop and chased him when he didn’t.

The officers caught up to Nava-Carbajal, and according to a report from the DA, he “violently resisted” being taken into custody. During a physical struggle, one of the officers saw a gun in Nava-Carbajal’s rig

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