Four officers who fatally shot a man high on methamphetamine at a wildfire evacuation checkpoint in California won’t face charges, officials said this week.The decision was announced Tuesday along with the findings of a report into the death of Soobleej Kaub Hawj, 35, who was killed on June 24, 2021, after pointing a loaded gun at officers at a checkpoint outside Big Springs in Siskiyou County, the Sacramento Bee reported.Hawj, whose truck was filled with 132 pounds of pot, had an out-of-state warrant for his arrest at the time and rammed his truck toward the officers at the checkpoint, where evacuations were underway as a lightning-sparked fire threatened thousands of illegal marijuana farms, according to a nine-page letter from Siskiyou County District Attorney Kirk Andrus.
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