The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office on Friday, Nov. 21, announced it had filed to dismiss a case against two then-Torrance police officers who in 2018 shot and killed a 23-year-old Black man sitting in a reportedly stolen car with what turned out to be a modified air rifle between his legs.

Authorities have said the suspect moved his hands toward a long gun.

District Attorney Nathan Hochman said his office did not believe it could prove beyond a reasonable doubt a charge of voluntary manslaughter against Matthew Concannon and Anthony Chavez in the fatal shooting of Christopher Deandre Mitchell.

A judge did not make a ruling Friday on the motion, and the case was continued until possibly next week, Hochman said.

The district attorney pointed to when the case was filed, say

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