Internal investigations clear Manchester officers, SWAT team of wrongdoing in deadly police shooting

Christine Dempsey, Hartford Courant
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Members of a regional SWAT team and two Manchester officers have been cleared of wrongdoing by local police in the April 2 deadly shooting of an unarmed man in Manchester.

The results of two separate internal affairs investigations follow a prosecutor’s finding last month that four officers from Capitol Region Emergency Services, or C.R.E.S.T., were justified when they shot and killed Jose Soto, 27, outside his mother’s home. Police never found a gun at the scene.

“…It is the opinion of this office that all personnel involved were in compliance with C.R.E.S.T. Policy and therefore are exonerated of any and all wrongdoing,” concluded the internal affairs investigator, Lt. Jon Laughlin, in the SWAT team report. Manchester Chief William Darby co-signed both reports.

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