No charges for 2022 police shooting along Interstate 25

BY LUKE ZARZECKI LZARZECKI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

e 17th Judicial District announced in a decision letter on July 6 they will not be charging the o cer who shot and killed Darylray Lopez on Sept. 5, 2022 on I-25 in ornton.

e video from the incident shows an o cer approaching Lopez, whose face is blurred out, on the opposite side of the concrete barrier in the middle of the highway that divides tra c.

“Do you need help?” the o cer asks. “Do you need an ambulance?” e man backs away from the barrier and then turns toward a second o cer on the other side of the barrier. e video shows the man approaching with what the o cer believes to be a weapon.

“Put it down!” the o cer yells. “Put it down, now! Put the knife down!” e man raises his arms and continues to approach the o cer who shoots three times at the man.

According to the decision letter,

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charge at the o cers but didn’t see anything in his hands.

e report also said Amber Cisneros, Lopez’s stepmother, indicated Lopez was acting “a little paranoid” the morning of the shooting.

“Amber said that he had never (o cially) been diagnosed with any mental disabilities, but that he had PTSD for being in prison for 10 years,” the report reads.

However, the report also says he had a prescription for Gabapentin.

According to the National Library of Medicine, Gabapentin treats seizures by decreasing abnormal excitement in the brain.

Lopez stated to an o cer that he was sick, to which the o cer asked if he needed an ambulance.

In an incident report previously obtained by Colorado Community Media, Brown said the suspect was about 15 feet away from him “when he began to charge.”

“O cer Brown said after the male