LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Nearly seven years after two Torrance police officers shot and killed a man, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office has moved to have their charges dropped.

District Attorney Nathan Hochman on Friday announced the decision to drop the case after his office determined the evidence was not strong enough to prove that the officers, Matthew Concannon and Anthony Chavez, committed voluntary manslaughter.

"We have filed a motion with the court to dismiss this case against these two officers," Hochman said in a news conference. "The people cannot prove its case of voluntary manslaughter against these two police officers for this shooting beyond a reasonable doubt."

In December 2018, the officers found 23-year-old Christopher Mitchell sitting in a stolen car. W

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