Lucas Salas Police Shooting Video Cheyenne Goins Murder Update

This week, 17th Judicial District DA Brian Mason issued a decision letter in the fatal shooting of Lucas Antonio Salas, who died while fleeing from officers with the Northglenn and Thornton police departments last summer.

Mason deemed the shooting legally justified, and to support this contention, his office released video of Northglenn officers Joshua Moreau and Charles Festi, as well as Thornton officer Mikal Timm, chasing down Salas, a suspect in the tragic slaying of 21-year-old Alamosa resident Cheyenne Goins, on a public golf course in broad daylight.

An excerpt from the letter reads: “Mr. Salas ignored [officers’] commands and continued to run through the golf course heading towards golfers and nearby homes.”

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation had announced a search for Goins…