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Recommend Report Clears Yolo (CA) Deputies in Shooting Luis Gutierrez: Shot in the Back 'because he turned away from the bullets' (Email)

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From [HERE] WOODLAND, Calif. --The U.S. Department of Justice has determined there is not enough evidence to prosecute three Yolo County Sheriff’s Deputies involved in the fatal shooting of a Woodland man.

Sgt. Dale Johnson along with Deputies Hernan Oviedo and Hector Bautista were involved in the shooting death of Luis Gutierrez-Navarro, 26, in April 2009. The shooting happened on the East Gum Avenue and Highway 113 overpass in Woodland. The Sheriff’s investigation found that Gutierrez-Navarro had methamphetamine in his system and threatened officers with a knife.

That was when the deputies felt in danger and fired the fatal shots. Gutierrez-Navarro turned away from the deputies as the officers where firing their weapons, hitting him in the back.

The investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice is the fourth independent investigation into the case.

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