Weld County authorities on Wednesday cleared six police officers who fatally shot a 59-year-old man in Frederick on Jan. 4, declaring that the officers were justified in firing their guns.

Frederick police officers responding to reports of shots fired were speaking to a concerned woman outside her residence when Jeremy Stumpf shot at them from his residence, and additional police converged, according to a letter from Weld District Attorney Michael Rourke notifying Weld County Sheriff Steve Reams of his findings.

No charges will be filed against the six Frederick police officers, Rourke wrote, because they reasonably believed when they fired their weapons “that they and others were in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury.”

Their use of force “was reasonable based on Stumpf’s threatened use of deadly physical force,” he concluded following a 19th Judicial District Critical Incident Response Team investigation.

On Jan. 4, police and deputies from multiple agencies, including the Mead Police Department and Weld County Sheriff’s Office, went to Frederick in response to this incident where, according to a summary included in Rourke’s letter, neighbors of Stumpf had reported hearing popping noises and glass breaking. Police at the scene, trying to determine the source of the gunfire, “were shot at from a second-story window” and took cover behind a patrol car.

Neighbors were evacuated, and shots fired by a man identified in the light of a rifle-mounted flashlight as Stumpf led to return fire, the investigators’ case summary said.

A Longmont Special Weapons and Tactics Team assisted and a drone was deployed in verifying Stumpf was down on the balcony. The SWAT team later determined that Stumpf had died of his wounds and was pronounced dead.

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