PITTSBURG, Kan. — Last month, Jalen Green was shot in an altercation with Pittsburg police officers on Walnut Street near the police station parking lot. After conducting an investigation, the Crawford County Attorney’s Office has decided to not press charges on the officer. In a release on Thursday, the county attorney’s office shared a detailed account of the events that led up to the shooting.

According to the attorney’s office and the summary of facts presented, at approximately 10:05 p.m. June 3, a Pittsburg Police Officer encountered Green in the 200 block of 3rd Street. The officer was driving a Pittsburg Police vehicle east on 3rd, heading back to the parking lot behind the station to finish his shift, which was scheduled from 2 to 10 p.m. Green was sitting in the grass just south of the Pittsburg Public Library, shirtless and wearing sunglasses. The officer asked if Green was “alright” and Green responded “You need to take me to jail.”

After telling Green to meet him in the library parking lot so they could talk, the officer pulled forward and felt something hit his chest, which he thought was a lanyard with keys. Another item was thrown at him, and Green was running alongside the car throwing items at the officer.  The officer radioed dispatch and told them where he was and that an individual was throwing items at him. As the officer exited his vehicle, Green took off the rest of his clothes and was nude. When the officer pulled out his taser, Green said “You’re going to have to shoot me,” and took a fighting stance with his hands up by his ears.

As Green came toward the officer, he deployed the taser. Green came at the officer and began fighting him, and they ended up on the ground. The officer was trying to get Green’s arm to handcuff him, but Green got on top of the officer and began grabbing the officer’s duty belt and vest. Green told the officer he was going to get his gun.

A second officer whose shift began at 10 p.m. was in the parking lot and heard the commotion and pushed the button to open the police parking lot gate. He saw the officer deploy his taser and ran toward them when he saw Green attacking the officer.

The second officer tried to get Green off of the first, but Green punched and kicked the second officer in the chest and he let go.

The first officer drive-stunned, or placed the taser directly onto Green’s body five times, but it did not deter Green, who grabbed the officer’s metal flashlight and struck him on the head. The second officer grabbed Green again, but Green got up. The first officer, bleeding from the head, attempted to get up, but saw Green come toward him, attempting to hit him with the flashlight again. The officer fired his gun three times.

The second officer began lifesaving measures until EMS arrived. A third officer tended to the first’s head wound, which was “bleeding continuously.”

The first officer stated he thought Green was trying to kill him. Neither of the officers knew Green.

Green was transported to Mercy Hospital Pittsburg and pronounced dead at the hospital. A KBI agent recovered a taser probe that was located in Green’s back.

Green’s autopsy was conducted at Forensic Medical of Kansas City. His cause of death was a gunshot wound to the chest. Additional gunshot wounds were found in his left shoulder and one in his abdomen.

During the investigation, agents reviewed camera footage from several cameras around Pittsburg. Leading up to the events that transpired, cameras captured footage of Green driving a black Ford Focus erratically through downtown and other areas of Pittsburg. The cameras confirmed the events happened just as the two officers reported. Investigators also discovered Green was a trained fighter and had participated in boxing, mixed martial arts and jujitsu.

Pursuant to K.S.A. 21-5222(b) a person may use deadly force when the person reasonably believes that deadly force is necessary to prevent an imminent risk of great bodily harm to himself or others. Because Green struck the officer with a flashlight, causing a head injury, and was approaching him with the flashlight in hand, ready to strike again, under Kansas law, the officer was justified in using deadly force, which resulted in the death of Green. The investigation concluded that the officer acted in self-defense, and no charges will be filed.