TWINSBURG: Prosecutors in Ohio have cleared a police officer in the fatal shooting of a 76-year-old man who was holding a loaded a handgun and had just shot his son.
The Summit County Prosecutors Office on Friday called the police shooting legally justified and appropriate.
A police officer shot and killed Charles Shaw last September in Twinsburg, southeast of Cleveland.
WKYC-TV in Cleveland reports that police say Shaw had refused to put his gun down and pointed it at officers.
An earlier report from a medical examiner’s investigator says Shaw shot his son who was trying to stop his father from leaving home with a pistol and a rifle.
The report says Shaw was vowing to “do some damage” at a medical facility because he was upset about his medications.