Body camera videos from the Colorado Springs Police Department of the fatal officer involved shooting of Joshua Vigil. [Full Statement] The 4th Judicial District Attorney’s Office: https://coloradosprings.gov/sites/default/files/no_charges_filed_in_july_23_2019_officer-involved_shooting_5.pdf Location: Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, United States Date: July 23, 2019 (Tuesday) The 4th Judicial District Attorney’s Office: ... While officers were conducting interviews with the witnesses, they learned that Mr. Vigil had earlier menaced his family members with a gun and was now facing felony charges related to that incident. This information was relayed to officers prior to their contact with Mr. Vigil at the apartment complex. At approximately 6:12 p.m., an officer spotted a red Mustang which had struck a cement barrier which belonged to a business in the 1200 block of Shasta Drive in Colorado Springs. The vehicle was unoccupied; however, multiple airbags had deployed, and the officer observed a black handgun on the driver’s side floorboard. It was obvious that the vehicle had driven off the road and crashed at that location. The officer walked to the corner of Shasta Drive and E. Fountain Blvd and spotted a male matching the description of the suspect walking east on Fountain. Officer Aragon heard the suspect’s description over his radio and at approximately 6:14 p.m. he spotted Vigil, who had jumped the fence, according to a witness and was in the locked courtyard of a senior living apartment complex located in the 3100 block of E. Fountain. Prior to being spotted, Vigil was in the southeast parking lot of the complex, where he menaced some apartment residents, including children, with his firearm. One witness stated he pulled a firearm and told the witness he needed a car and that if he didn’t get one, bad things were going to happen, while another said he waved a gun around after she pushed him when he refused to move away from her vehicle. At approximately 6:16 p.m., Vigil entered the vestibule, which is an all-glass foyer that leads to the lobby of the apartments. Once inside the glassed-in entryway, Vigil proceeded to pace back and forth, with a firearm in his right hand. The interior glass doors to the lobby were locked, denying entrance from the vestibule into the lobby area. When Vigil entered the vestibule, he spotted two women and tried to convince them to unlock the door. Both women spotted the gun in his hand and fled the lobby. Three responding officers, Patrol Officers C. Jones and L. Aragon, and Sgt. M. Keller, had arrived at the scene and were in the apartment complex courtyard facing the vestibule. Officers Jones and Aragon gave repeated commands to Vigil to put his hands up, however, Vigil refused to comply and continued to pace with the weapon in his hand. At approximately 6:17 p.m., Officer Aragon observed Vigil rotating his body and right hand, as if to either fire at, or take cover from, officers. An apartment resident who was walking through the lobby at the time of the incident corroborated the officer’s account, and said he also witnessed Vigil rotate his body and right hand, which held a handgun. At that moment, Officer Aragon felt safety risks for himself and other officers on scene and he fired first, followed by Officer Jones. Sgt Keller fired when he saw the suspect raise his arm with the weapon and observed the smoke and muzzle flash from the suspect’s gun. After the shooting, the officers entered the vestibule and immediately rendered medical aid to Mr. Vigil. An ambulance transported him to the hospital where he was pronounced deceased. When officers entered the vestibule, Mr. Vigil’s weapon was recovered from his chest area. Seven casings from inside the vestibule were tested and found to be consistent with having been fired from Mr. Vigil’s weapon. Defects from bullets fired by defendant’s weapon were located on a glass wall between the vestibule and the office area of the apartment complex. Projectiles found in the area were also associated with suspect’s gun. Eighteen casings were found to be associated with the officers’ weapons, outside the vestibule area, in the courtyard. According to the coroner’s autopsy report, Mr. Vigil sustained multiple gunshot wounds. Toxicology results indicated he was under the influence of several narcotics and other drugs, including amphetamine, cocaine/benzoylecgonine, methamphetamine, thc-cooh, hydrozychloroquine, carmazapine and alcohol at the time of the shooting. ...

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