A former Clear Creek County Sheriff's Office (Colorado) has been convicted of criminally negligent homicide in the 2022 shooting death of a 22-year-old who had called 911 when his car got stuck between two rocks.
Andrew Buen faces up to three years in prison, a $100,000 fine, and a mandatory two years on probation for the criminally negligent homicide conviction.
The conviction came this week at the end of a retrial in the Fifth Judicial District. An April 2024 jury ended in a deadlock on the charges of second-degree murder and official misconduct, the Denver Gazette reported.
Court testimony detailed how Christian Glass had left I-70 to avoid traffic and his car became stuck between rocks. When he called 911, Glass reportedly told the dispatcher that he was being followed by skinwalkers.
That same call revealed Glass had weapons in the car, but he pledged to throw them out when officers arrived.
Buen broke a side window, then fired six bean bag rounds, and deployed an electronic control weapon on Glass. According to evidence in the trial, Glass then began stabbing himself with a knife.
Buen shot Glass five times.
Buen was one of the first two officers to arrive, with a total of seven responding. He was one of eight officers to face trial, counting one who was not on scene but was on the radio. Six were charged with not preventing the death, but two of those cases have been dropped.
