Missouri's public prosecutor rejects a police officer who killed a woman and a child

Independence, Mon. – A prosecutor refused to raise criminal charges against a police officer in Missouri who shot a woman and child's child last year.

The police officers from Independence reacted to a reported attack in November in a residential building. They found out how to arrest the woman who was non -verbal and communicated with nods and gestures when she abruptly grabbed a butcher knife from a bedside table on the civil servants while holding the child, said Jackson County, Melesa Johnson's office on Friday.

One officer withdrew, but the other was against a closet and could not escape, said Johnson's office. He fired four shots when the woman moved to him with the knife, the office said. The shots met and killed the woman and her child, who were identified by Kcur News as 34-year-old Maria Pike and her 3-month-old daughter Destinii.

Johnson's office said that the use of fatal violence by the officer falls into the protection of the law.

Her office also found that there was not enough evidence to intentionally demonstrate the officer.

“The evidence shows that the shooting officer shot the civilian who held the child,” said the public prosecutor in an explanation.

“We did not come to this decision lightly. The loss of a young mother and her child is devastating and tragic, ”said Johnson. “As a public prosecutor, however, we are tied to an oath to apply the law and analyze facts without being guided by the sympathy that we feel for all those affected. Our goal is to determine whether what was done was reasonable, defined by Missouri Law and not whether it was the best procedure. “