Judge declines to cut bail for man shot by officer at Red Rock loop

A Colorado antheral who was changeable successful the limb by instrumentality enforcement astatine the Red Rock Canyon scenic loop Thursday appeared successful a Las Vegas courtroom aboriginal Tuesday and had his bail affirmed astatine $100,000.

Clark County Chief Deputy District Attorney Giancarlo Pesci said during a Las Vegas Justice Court quality for Erik Legried, 29, that the events starring to Legried’s shooting started erstwhile a household subordinate of Legried’s called constabulary anterior to 7 a.m. Thursday to study helium was suicidal. The Nevada Highway Patrol aboriginal recovered Legried driving a achromatic Toyota Tacoma adjacent the scenic loop visitant center.

“He has intelligence wellness issues and was not taking his medicine,” Pesci said. “(A constabulary report) indicates helium was driving astatine a precise precocious complaint of speed, crashed into a fence, past the troopers decided to halt him, to assistance him, told him to wait, and helium took disconnected astatine a precocious complaint of speed. Then, helium slammed his (truck) into 1 of the trooper’s vehicles.”

At slightest 1 NHP trooper discharged their firearm astatine Legried, wounding him successful the leg. He was treated astatine an country hospital, past jailed connected aggregate felonies, including 4 counts of artillery with a usage of a deadly limb against a archetypal responder and evading arrest.

Pesci told Justice of the Peace Pro-Tem Holly Stoberski that due to the fact that of Legried’s intelligence wellness issues and “dangerous acts,” his bail — acceptable astatine $100,000 during a Friday tribunal proceeding — should stay the same.

“He’s a information to this assemblage and he’s a information to instrumentality enforcement,” Pesci said.

Legried’s 2 attorneys, Christopher Mishler and William Brown, asked Stoberski to little the bail. They said Legried’s parent successful Minnesota had arranged for him to person intelligence wellness attraction arsenic a transgression lawsuit against him makes his mode done the courts.

“They person a intelligence wellness screening acceptable up astatine the Mayo Clinic,” Mishler said. “We’ve talked to him. He is successful statement that is proper. … He is consenting to bash that.”

The defence attorneys asked the justice to little bail to $10,000 and enforce physics monitoring. Stoberski, however, kept the bail the same, noting adjacent if Legried were released connected bail with physics monitoring, helium would inactive person to stay successful Southern Nevada portion charges are pending.

In court, Legried described himself arsenic a statement instructor, creator and musician. A preliminary proceeding successful the lawsuit was acceptable for Nov. 30.

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