Arapahoe County prosecutors ruled Wednesday that Marquez acted appropriately when he exchanged fire with the suspects.
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If a jury in Colorado ever is asked to decide whether Jahlil Meshesha was pointing his gun at off-duty Jefferson County Deputy Sheriff Jose Ramon Marquez in an apparent attempted robbery last winter, they just need to look at a photograph of his weapon.
Marquez had told police he was visiting his girlfriend when he saw two young men with masks covering their faces. “40 caliber handgun and traveled down the barrel, colliding with a cartridge that was in the chamber of the gun”, according to the letter.
A Colorado sheriff’s deputy who was under attack by robbers likely owes his life to a one-in-a-billion shot he fired at one of the suspects.
The police office said one of the men told him to “give it up” and pulled out a gun.
The bullet fired from a Colorado deputy somehow ended up in a suspect’s gun..
With what Jimmy Graham of the Active Shooter Response Training Center calls a “one in a million shot”, it is unlikely that Marquez could ever do it again. He has not yet returned to duty, due to his injuries. One was wounded in the leg and arrested, and the other got away.
Marquez is still recovering from his wounds and the second, unidentified suspect, is at large.
“Deputy Marquez reasonably believed that his life was in danger and acted reasonably in shooting Meshesha, and that he used an appropriate level of physical force”, Orman wrote.
The gunmen hit Marquez twice in the abdomen and once in the shoulder, according to KMGH-TV.
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The bullets that hit Marquez damaged his intestines, colon and liver and caused fractured ribs.
