Raleigh police officer who shot, killed man on I-440 will not face charges

Raleigh police responded to a crash involving Daniel Turcios and his family on Jan. 11. When officers arrived, they found Turcios had a knife in his hand and was upset, according to body camera footage reviewed by WRAL News.

In that body camera footage released after shooting, Turcios is seen holding a small knife a couple of inches from a firefighter. An officer asks Turcios to put his knife down, and he shakes his head no. After refusing to drop the knife, Turcios was shocked in the back with a Taser.

Turcios was shot in the chest, torso and right thigh, according to his autopsy. No substances were in his bloodstream aside from nicotine and caffeine, the autopsy report states.

In a report released on Wednesday, the Wake County District Attorney's Office said Turcios was "acting erratically, wielding a knife and refusing to follow officer commands even as additional civilians on scene pleaded with him in Spanish to do so."

The report said under those circumstances, deploying a Taser was not in violation of any laws.

As police tried to take Turcios into custody, the report said he "violently swung" the knife at officers and attempted to get up "coming in close contact with the knife with more than one officer."

The report said based on those facts, the "use of deadly force in that moment by the Raleigh police officer was not unlawful," and because of that, there would be no criminal prosecution.