No charges for officer in death of Michigan teen struck by police car during chase

Published May 28, 2024 1:24 PM

By ED WHITE
Associated Press

A prosecutor has declined to file charges against a police officer who struck and killed a western Michigan teenager while the boy was running from a stolen vehicle. Kent County prosecutor Chris Becker played a video for reporters and said he found no evidence of intentional deadly force. He instead charged the teen driver of the stolen vehicle. Seventeen-year-old Riley Doggett was hit by a patrol car driven by a sheriff’s deputy at the end of a high-speed chase in Kent and Ottawa counties on April 8. He died from head injuries. Doggett’s family will ask the attorney general to review what happened.

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