NORTHGLENN – Three officers involved in the December 2017 shooting of a stolen car suspect and his passenger won’t face prosecution in the case, 17th Judicial District Attorney Dave Young wrote in a review of the shooting released Friday.
Jeremy Patscheck died in the shooting and his girlfriend, Serina Minella, was paralyzed from the neck down after being hit by one of the officers’ bullets Dec. 13 last year.
According to Young’s review, which was investigated by the office’s Critical Incident Investigation Team, Patscheck and Minella were in a car stolen out of Longmont a week earlier when the shooting happened early that morning. But officers had been watching Patscheck and the car since earlier in the night when they noticed the vehicle was stolen while on patrol.
Officers put a GPS tracking device on it and watched as the car drove around the metro area for several hours. The report says officers were also told that the driver in the vehicle matched the description of a man who had tried to ram a patrol vehicle a week earlier.
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