A Cottonwood Heights officer was not legally justified when he rammed his police cruiser into an armed robbery suspect before fatally shooting the 19-year-old man, the district attorney said.
after receiving new evidence. Previously, prosecutors only knew Officer Casey Davies had shot Zane James, not that Davies hit the teen with his police car.
Police officers are allowed to use deadly force, such as shooting at someone or hitting them with their car, if they “reasonably believe” that person is a threat to the officer or someone else. Gill concluded that there was no evidence that showed James was a threat to anyone at the time that Davies made the decision to hit him with his car.
Gill’s office is required by law to investigate all officer uses of deadly force. But he had not investigated Davies’ decision to hit James — no one had witnessed it, and the only source of information about it was Davies’ internal interview.last August, when James’ family filed an amended lawsuit in federal court as part of their ongoing civil case against Cottonwood Heights Police Department. The James family obtained Davies’ internal interview as part of a civil lawsuit.
Lt. Dan Bartlett wrote in the update that Sgt. Ken Dailey had contacted him, asking why he was scheduled for an upcoming deposition in the civil case. Dailey had been the liaison between Cottonwood Heights police and the outside agency investigating the shooting. Bartlett wrote that “this information was new to me and I felt that I needed to inquire further.” He said he told police Chief Robby Russo and called the Salt Lake City Police Department and the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office to reopen the investigation.
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