Burlingame – According to the general public prosecutor's office in San Mateo County, two cops should not shot for criminal charges last autumn last autumn last autumn.
In a report published on Wednesday, the district prosecutor Steve Wagstaffe concluded that the police officer of San Mateo, Manfield NG, and the Burlingame police officer Sascha Koch were justified on November 30, 2024 in the appliance of deadly violence against Sergio Trujillo-Ayala.
Trujillo-Ayala survived the shootout.
The San Mateo cops first met Trujillo-Ayala around 3:30 a.m. after they responded to a report on a shot near the 888 North San Mateo Drive in San Mateo. Wagstaffe said Trujillo-Ayala was “fidgety” and admitted to using methamphetamine.
When an officer tried to capture Trujillo-Ayala, he lifted his shirt and grabbed a pistol with 45 caliber in his covenant, said Wagstaffe. Trujillo-Ayala and the officer then got here right into a dispute that ended that the officials withdraw and covered themselves behind their patrol automotive and Trujillo-Ayala and showed and running his gun of their direction.
The officers followed Trujillo-Ayala, but overpassed him on Jefferson Court and the Peninsula Avenue.
A short while later, Burlingame cops Trujillo-Ayala found on the train tracks near California Drive and Bayswater Avenue in Burlingame. Trujillo-Ayala spoke incoherent and kept his gun under his chin, said Wagstaffe.
When Trujillo-Ayala ignored the commands to drop his firearm, an officer shot him into his stomach with a 40 mm- “less deadly” launcher. Wagstaffe said Trujillo-Ayala held on his weapon and directed her within the direction of the officers, including NG and Koch.
In response, two shots shot from his rifle and Koch fired a shot from his pistol.
Trujillo-Ayala didn’t fire his weapon within the officers, said Wagstaffe.
Trujillo-Ayala was taken to the Stanford Medical Center, where he was treated for injuries resembling a broken arm and a shoulder blade. Wagstaffe said that Trujillo-Ayala had “recorded hallucinations and religious delusions” when he was admitted.
He also tested positively for amphetamine.
In his conclusion that the officials had acted lawfully, Wagstaffe found that “two officers from two different agencies perceived the threat in the same way and acted accordingly”.
“I find that they reacted to the upcoming threat of Mr. Trujillo-Ayala, which had the current ability and obvious intention to lead them to death, or due to its effects to focus on several officers, cause great physical injuries,” he said.
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