PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office has received the Kitsap Critical Incident Response Team’s completed investigative report and the final state crime lab report related to an officer-involved shooting in downtown Port Angeles on May 3.
Prosecuting attorney Mark Nichols is currently reviewing the case, a representative in his office said Friday.
Joseph Jacob Hadden, 38, was killed when two Port Angeles police officers confronted him outside Chase Bank, 101 W. Front St. Hadden, who was armed with a handgun, died at the scene.
The investigation was turned over to the Kitsap Critical Incident Response Team (KCIRT), an independent body that handles deadly force incidents involving law enforcement in Clallam, Kitsap and Mason counties.
Port Angeles Police Chief Brian Smith said Friday the PAPD had received the KCIRT report and was continuing to follow established policy regarding incidents involving deadly force.
“We started an administrative investigation right from the beginning and we’re in the process of completing it,” Smith said.
A shooting review board will examine the results of the internal investigation and make a recommendation to Smith with respect to whether or not the shooting followed policy.
Smith said the officers involved are still at their jobs.
At the time of the shooting, Smith and Clallam County Sheriff Brian King issued a prepared statement that read: “The facts as we believe them to be now tell us that the PAPD officers were confronted with a lethal threat and that they carried out their duties to protect the public and other officers.”
Officers and sheriff’s deputies provided emergency medical aid to Hadden at the scene.
Paramedics from the Port Angeles Fire Department initiated advanced life-support measures.
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