Colorado Deputies Are Indicted in Fatal Shooting of Man Who Called 911

Two Colorado sheriff’s deputies have been indicted in connection with the fatal shooting in June of a 22-year-old Boulder man, Christian Glass, who had called 911 for help when his SUV became stuck on a mountain road at night, prosecutors said.

The office of Heidi McCollum, the Clear Creek County district attorney, announced the indictment of the two deputies, Andrew Buen and Kyle Gould, on Wednesday. The sheriff’s office said in a statement that the deputies had been fired because of the indictment.

Buen was charged with second-degree murder, official misconduct and reckless endangerment, prosecutors said in a statement. Gould was charged with criminally negligent homicide and reckless endangerment.

Arrest warrants were issued for both men. Buen’s bond was set at $50,000 and Gould’s bond was set at $2,500, prosecutors said.

Glass was killed on the night of June 10, after he called 911 when his Honda Pilot got stuck on an embankment on a mountain road near Silver Plume, a former silver mining camp in the Rocky Mountains, about 45 miles west of Denver.

Roughly a half-dozen officers responded to the call and negotiated with Glass for more than an hour.

Video footage shows that roughly half a dozen officers arrived and nearly surrounded the vehicle while Glass stayed inside.

He did not open the SUV’s door or window, unlock the vehicle or get out, as officers requested. At one point, he turned to the closed window, cupping his hands in a heart-shaped gesture at the officers.

The negotiations lasted more than an hour, and toward the end, an officer broke the SUV’s driver’s side window and ordered Glass to “drop the knife.”

Glass continued to hold a knife and officers continued to order him to drop it, firing beanbag rounds at Glass and using a stun gun on him. Glass twisted in his seat and swung an arm at the broken window, toward an approaching officer, and gunshots were fired, the videos show.

At a news conference in September, Glass’ mother, Sally Glass, said that her son loved to take long drives in the mountains, that he was an artist and that he was struggling with his mental health the night he was killed.

“He was just too scared to get out of his car,” she said.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times .