Local Briefs DENVER OFFICERS CLEARED IN SHOOTING
Three Denver police officers have been cleared of any criminal charges in the April shooting death of an armed man behind the wheel of a car on East Colfax Avenue during the afternoon rush hour.
Officers Blake Bishop, Andrew Nielsen and Keith Valentine were cleared Thursday by the Denver district attorney’s office, according to an investigative review.
The shooting happened about 5 p.m. April 25 on Colfax near the intersection of Quebec Street.
The man who was fatally shot, 36yearold Charles Baxter Boeh, was a fugitive — a bank and aggravated robbery suspect in Colora do and other states. Officers looking for Boeh had spotted him driving an Audi convertible west on Colfax near Ulster.
A patrol car pulled up behind the Audi when it stopped for a light at Quebec.
Other officers were in the immediate area as well.
When the patrol car’s flashing lights illuminated, Boeh tried to drive his Audi between cars stopped at the light in front of him, ramming and damaging those vehicles. Boeh also brandished a firearm, and the three officers opened fire.
A woman in the Audi with Boeh was not injured. She told investigators that as Boeh slammed on the gas pedal to ram his way out of traffic, Boeh said, “I’m dying today!”
CSU pulls out of spay study of wild horses.
Colorado State University is withdrawing from a controversial study aimed at spaying wild horses at the Warm Springs Herd Management Area near Burns, Ore.
The spay study was a joint effort between CSU, the Bureau of Land Management and the United States Geological Survey.
The project would evaluate the effects of “ovariectomy via colpotomy” on wild horse mares and the impacts on herd behavior once the mares are returned to the range.
The proposal called for the veterinarian performing the procedure on the “semisterile” environment of Burns Corrals, according to the BLM.
However, the project attracted plenty of critics including wild horse and burro advocates, such as The Cloud Foundation. dpcommunity @dpcommunity