Criminal charges will not be filed against Minneapolis police officers in the fatal shooting of Amir Locke, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office said in a joint statement on Wednesday.
There was "insufficient admissible evidence to file criminal charges," the statement said.
The statement said prosecutors "would be unable to disprove beyond a reasonable doubt any of the elements of Minnesota's use-of-deadly-force statute that authorizes the use of force."
Locke was shot by a SWAT member with the Minneapolis Police Department in February while officers were performing a no-knock search warrant. He was pronounced dead from gunshot wounds at a nearby hospital.
Police at the time said Locke was not the target of the warrant.
"He should be alive today, and his death is a tragedy," Ellison and the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office said in their statement. "Amir Locke was not a suspect in the underlying Saint Paul criminal investigation nor was he named in the search warrants. Amir Locke is a victim. This tragedy may not have occurred absent the no-knock warrant used in this case."
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