Butler County’s district attorney has cleared state troopers involved in two separate shootings this year.
DA Rich Goldinger said he made a determination in each of these cases that the shootings were justified and no criminal charges were warranted in either case.
“I found each of the troopers justified in utilizing the force they used. In each instance, the troopers were engaging individuals who were armed and pointing their firearms in the direction of the troopers on the scene,” Goldinger said in an email Thursday.
The first shooting was in mid-September and killed 73-year-old Walter Wiemann during an armed standoff. Police were called to his home on Nursery Road in Forward Township for a man “making threats to himself, others and police.”
The second shooting was in late October when police were called to the Stoneworth Apartments in Worth Township for a welfare check. When police arrived, 36-year-old Brittany Ann Kitner was holding a loaded shotgun and refused to drop it.
Kitner was shot in the thigh. Her injury was non-fatal.
When someone is shot by state police, several layers of investigation takes place.
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