No Charges Against Minneapolis Cops In Fatal Shooting

MINNEAPOLIS — Two Minneapolis police officers will not be charged in the fatal shooting of Travis Jordan, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced Thursday. Officers Ryan Keyes and Neal Walsh fired a total of eight shots at the 36-year-old Jordan, killing him.

At the time, investigators say he was moving toward Walsh with a 13.5-inch Chefmate knife with an eight-and-a-quarter-inch blade.

“I express my heartfelt condolences to Mr. Jordan’s family and to his girlfriend over his tragic death,” Freeman said in a statement.

“However, in reviewing all of the evidence gathered by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, including video from the officers’ body cameras, it was clear, at that moment, Mr. Jordan presented a real danger to the officers. Under Minnesota law, they were justified in using deadly force.”

According to the eight-page report of the county attorney, and based on the BCA’s investigation, Jordan’s girlfriend called Minneapolis police at 1:58 p.m. on Nov. 9. She told the dispatcher that he was threatening to commit suicide at his home on the 3700 block of Morgan Avenue North.

She had spoken to him by phone about 15 minutes earlier and he said he wanted to die. When she told Jordan she was going to call police, he said he would talk to them when they arrived.

Authorities say that when he was shot, Jordan was wielding a large knife, refused numerous commands to drop the knife, refused commands not to come out of the house or approach the officers and, instead, presented the officers with a deadly threat.

“Officers Walsh and Keyes’ use of deadly force was objectively reasonable in the face of the danger of death or great bodily harm and no criminal charges could or should be made,” Freeman concluded.

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