{"id":93306,"date":"2025-12-18T21:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/93306\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T21:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:24:08","slug":"officer-involved-shooting-in-el-paso-county-referred-to-grand-jury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/93306\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer-involved shooting in El Paso County referred to grand jury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A grand jury will consider a case from July in which two sheriff&#8217;s deputies responding to a call in El Paso County\u00a0 were involved in the fatal shooting of a man.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Initial reports from the sheriff&#8217;s office said the suspect\u00a0 became physically aggressive toward the deputies and was able to grab and deploy one of their tasers. Following an investigation by the multi-agency \u201cDeadly Force Investigation Team\u201d the case was referred to the 4th Judicial District Grand Jury for further review.<\/p>\n<p>The deputies were responding to a call from a neighbor of the El Paso County home, according to a preliminary investigation by the Colorado Springs Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After initially investigating the disturbance involving Prine and an adult female, deputies attempted to detain Prine, when the altercation allegedly occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies began rendering aid until medical personnel arrived. Prine was later pronounced dead on the scene. The two deputies were taken to the hospital with minor injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Upon hearing evidence and potentially investigating further, the grand jury will decide if there&#8217;s enough evidence to bring criminal charges. If the grand jury decides not to bring charges then it will, as required by state law, publish a report detailing the results of its investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In accordance with the Sheriff&#8217;s Office policies the two deputies, Brenden Koehlinger and Juanito Cuellar, have been on administrative leave since the shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A grand jury will consider a case from July in which two sheriff&#8217;s deputies responding to a call&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,1060,140,139,5225,95,25817],"class_list":["post-93306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-county","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-officer-involved-shooting","tag-shooting","tag-southern-colorado"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}