LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Michigan Lawyer Common Dana Nessel is not going to cost the Michigan State Police troopers concerned within the June 2024 capturing dying of 34-year-old Eric Michael Fiddler, who shot and killed Hillsdale County Sheriff’s Deputy Willliam Butler.
Fallen Hillsdale deputy, veteran, inducted into Corridor of Valor
Eric Michael Fiddler (MSP)
On June 27, 2024, Butler carried out a visitors cease on a automotive with Fiddler inside on Beecher Street in Jonesville, throughout which Fiddler shot and killed him earlier than working away from the world. After a prolonged pursuit, troopers discovered Fiddler within the woods south of Culbert Street and east of Osseo Street.
A map of the world from the report.
Fiddler was mendacity on the bottom behind a brief cement wall close to a shed, and a trooper ordered him to point out his fingers. As a substitute, he shot on the trooper, and 6 of the troopers current returned hearth, killing him. Fiddler died of a number of gunshot wounds to the torso and head, nonetheless holding the 9mm pistol he used to shoot on the troopers.
Toxicology testing discovered an especially excessive stage of methamphetamine in Fiddler’s system—greater than 900 ng/ml.
Accused Hillsdale shooter had larceny, drug, gun prices
Nessel’s workplace decided that the troopers, in capturing and killing Fiddler, had been appearing in lawful self-defense, writing in a launch, “Shooting a gun in self-defense requires an honest and reasonable belief that an officer is in danger of being killed or seriously injured. If that person’s belief was honest and reasonable, they can act immediately to defend themselves.”
The Division of Lawyer Common reviewed police reviews, signed statements, dashcam and bodycam footage, lab reviews, medical reviews, and extra throughout their investigation. You may learn their full report under.
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