Trooper won’t face charges after using Taser on man who fell from freeway to his death

A Utah Highway Patrol trooper who used his Taser to stop a fleeing man, resulting in the man falling 21 feet off the freeway to his death, will not be criminally charged. Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill announced Friday that trooper Wyatt Hancock’s use of force was legally justified, even though his office could not ultimately determine what role the Taser played in the fatal fall.