A sheriff's deputy won't face criminal charges for fatally shooting 2 Black teens

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A sheriff's lawman successful New York volition not look transgression charges for fatally shooting 2 Black teenagers fleeing successful a car successful 2023, Attorney General Letitia James announced Friday.

An investigative study released by James' bureau determined prosecutors would not beryllium capable to disprove that the deputy, John Rosello, believed the car was astir to deed him oregon that firing into the car was a mode to forestall himself from being harmed.

Rosello, of the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office, fatally changeable Dhal Apet, 17, and Lueth Mo, 15, arsenic helium was investigating the burglary of a fume store successful the Syracuse country and responding to a telephone astir radical transferring items betwixt 2 vehicles.

Surveillance video of the shooting antecedently released by the lawyer general's bureau shows the lawman usage his SUV's beforehand bumper to pin 1 of the cars into a enactment of bushes. Rosello past gets retired of the vehicle, stands for a infinitesimal successful beforehand of the car Apet and Mo are riding in, past steps retired of the mode with his firearm seemingly aimed astatine the car arsenic it moves forward.

The lawman keeps his weapon pointed astatine the car arsenic it drives past him and accelerates away, according to the video and report. What's not wide from the video is erstwhile Rosello began and stopped firing his weapon, due to the fact that the video has nary audio and captured the country from crossed a street. Rosello did not activate his assemblage camera earlier the confrontation.

Rosello radioed, “White car, tried to tally maine over, shots fired," according to the study released Friday by James, a Democrat.

Apet and Mo were recovered slumped implicit successful a car connected a thoroughfare much than a mile away. Apet was pronounced dormant astatine the scene, portion Mo died successful a infirmary the aforesaid day, according to the report.

An lawyer representing the families of Apet and Mo declined to comment.