DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) - The Stark County State’s Attorney has determined the use of deadly force was necessary by police officers who fatally shot a man they were attempting to arrest in Dickinson.
The U.S. Marshals Service High Plains Fugitive Task Force was seeking 25-year-old Dakota Chlarson on a warrant for armed robbery.
Two task force members, Bismarck officers Casey Bosch and Tom Grosz, fired their weapons when Chlarson charged at them with a scissors following a standoff at a Dickinson apartment Feb. 13, according to authorities.
Chlarson refused to comply with officers’orders and attempts to subdue him with less-than-lethal means were unsuccessful, prosecutor Tom Henning said, adding that “the deceased’s own actions caused the necessity of use of deadly force in this instance.”
The Bismarck Tribune reports Grosz and Bosch were placed on administrative leave after the shooting, but have now returned to duty.
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