CHARLOTTE — There will be no charges filed after a deadly officer-involved shooting in southwest Charlotte, the Mecklenburg County District Attorney announced Wednesday.
In a news release, Spencer B. Merriweather III said the officers accused of fatally shooting 37-year-old Nelson Javier Funez Reyes in September “acted in self-defense or defense of others.”
According to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, the shooting happened during a traffic stop on Sept. 22 just before 7:30 p.m. CMPD said two officers in one police cruiser were responding to an assault with a deadly weapon call, and pulled over a car on East Arrowood Road at Nations Ford Road they believed could be involved.
The department said the officers were having a conversation with the person in that car when the suspect pulled out a gun and shots were fired.
CMPD said Officer Kenneth Kludy was shot multiple times and seriously injured.
Reyes was also shot and died at the hospital days later.
Merriweather said Officer Kludy and the second officer in the police cruiser, Officer Joshua Heater, “justifiably” fired their service weapons at Reyes that night.
“The video from the body-worn cameras and the physical evidence on scene substantiate that Officers Heater and Kludy were reasonable in their belief that the decedent posed an imminent threat of great bodily harm or death to one or both of them when they fired,” Merriweather said.
Heater and Kludy were both placed on paid administrative leave while authorities conducted multiple investigations into the shooting.
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