Sykap was not complying with officers’ demands but did not at any time pose a threat to their lives, according to the criminal complaints filed against the officers. Prosecutors had said body camera video contradicted the officers’ claims that Sykap attempted to use the car to ram them, putting their lives in danger. “A case that never should have been charged was resoundingly dismissed not once, but twice.” “Both attempts failed because they were without merit,” Glendon told CNN in an email. “The rejection of the prosecutors misguided accusations by both the grand jury and then by the courts, all within 2 months of each other, means that the charges were utterly without merit or cause,” Sing told CNN in a statement.įredeluces’ lawyer, Crystal K. Richard Sing, who represents Thom, agreed with Otake’s stance. It was not even a close call,” Otake said in an emailed statement. “This was clearly a case of officers acting to protect themselves and the public. Thomas Otake, the attorney who represents Ah Nee, told CNN that he was not surprised by the grand jury and the court’s decisions.
“All we had was a white Honda speeding away, trying to avoid being arrested,” Domingo said at the end of a weeks-long preliminary hearing.ģ Honolulu police officers face charges in fatal shooting of 16-year-oldĪ grand jury had decided not to indict the officers in the killing of Iremamber, but prosecutors sought their own charges– arguing that the officers’ use of deadly force was “unnecessary, unreasonable, and unjustified under the law.” Judge William Domingo determined that the officers had no way of knowing that the suspects being pursued in the car chase were unarmed teenagers when they opened fire. Officer Geoffrey Thom was charged with second-degree murder for allegedly firing the shots that killed Sykap “without provocation.” And officers Zackary Ah Nee and Christopher Fredeluces faced second-degree attempted murder charges. The teen’s brother, Mark Sykap, was struck by two bullets and survived. He was pronounced dead after being taken to a hospital following the April 5 shooting.
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Iremamber Sykap was shot eight times through the rear window of a white Honda that police suspected had been stolen and used in a series of crimes, according to the Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. MaKhia joins Adam Toledo (13), Anthony Thompson (17), Iremamber Sykap (16).
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The shooting came amid a national reckoning over police use of force.The three Honolulu police officers who faced various murder charges over the killing of a 16-year-old boy will not stand trial after a judge ruled Wednesday that there was no probable cause to proceed with the case. Do you remember the fatal police shooting of 16-year-old MaKhia Bryant. The lawsuit argues that the officers violated department policy and use-of-force standards when they shot Sykap. Sykap’s family says the department falsely claimed the car rammed police vehicles and that officers fired in self-defense. Notes by medical professionals at the hospital and a diagram indicating where Sykap was shot showed the shooting was “clearly unnecessary,” Seitz said.
Domingo found the officers were in danger when they approached the car Sykap was driving after he lead police on a high-speed chase up to 80 mph (130 kph) on highways and city streets. The Honolulu Medical Examiner’s office said it won’t release Sykap’s autopsy report at the direction of the prosecuting attorney’s office, which is investigating. The charges came after prosecutors took their case to a grand jury but failed to win an indictment there in June. It says officers kept firing after the car lurched forward and ended up in a ditch. Police said Sykap was driving a stolen Honda linked to an armed robbery, burglary, purse snatching and car theft and led officers on a chase before the April 5 shooting.Ī lawsuit by his grandmother and mother alleges officers fired multiple shots at Sykap after the vehicle came to a stop, when Sykap was unarmed and posed no risk to them. Spokespersons for the Honolulu Police Department and the city didn’t immediately comment on the records involving Iremamber Sykap.Ī doctor wrote in emergency room notes that Sykap had a “gunshot wound to the back of his head, two gunshot wounds to his right shoulder, and 1 gunshot wound to his left shoulder,”
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