Ex-Cop Mohamed Noor Seeks Full Acquittal In Murder Case

MINNEAPOLIS — Former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor is seeking a full acquittal of the third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter charges he was convicted of last month. Noor's defense team filed a motion for acquittal Tuesday.

"The evidence at trial failed to support finding that Mr. Noor acted with depraved heart," the document states.

"When Officer Noor fired that night he was not acting With depraved mind seething with wanton passion to cause mischief."

Noor fatally shot 40-year-old bride-to-be Justine Ruszczyk Damond— originally from Sydney, Australia — on July 15, 2017 in Minneapolis.

Damond was killed minutes after she made a 911 call to report a disturbance behind her Minneapolis home. She lived on Washburn Avenue South with her fiancé, Don Damond, 50, whom she had planned to marry in August 2017, one month after the shooting occurred.

Transcripts released by the city of Minneapolis show how Damond spent her final moments attempting to help a stranger she believed was possibly being raped.

"Mr. Noor understood his actions had consequences. His actions were an attempt to minimize the danger he and Officer Harrity believed was real at that moment," Noor's attorneys wrote in Tuesday's motion for acquittal.

"And after the fact, his shock and actions reveal man With heavy conscience, not man acting in conscious disregard for the risk he was creating."

Find the motion for acquittal here.