Fitchburg Police officer involved in deadly shooting will not face charges, body cam released

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A Fitchburg Police Department officer will not face charges in the deadly August shooting of a 28-year-old man, the Dane County District Attorney’s Office announced.

On the morning of August 12 just before 8 a.m., the Dane County District Attorney’s office recounted how someone called 911 saying someone tried to break his neck and he saw someone who he had a no contact order with. The caller said, never mind and hung up. Officials tried to call back, and someone answered but didn’t say anything.

Three Fitchburg officers showed up to the area. They reported a neighbor told them a couple was fighting inside an apartment on the 800 block of Whispering Pines Way. Call logs show officers force the apartment door open at 9 a.m.

Once inside the home, officers spoke to someone who told them a man, identified has Kevin Price, had a knife. The Dane Co. DA reports officers asked Price to come out, and they asked him if he had a knife. Price said he did have one, and officers reportedly asked him to drop it.

According to the DA’s report, Price allegedly opened the folding knife and went to exit the closet, moving toward officers. Police said they repeatedly asked Price to drop the knife and when he didn’t, they fired at him.

The report indicates Price was hit multiple times in the chest before he fell back. Officers then carried him out of the home and attempted life-saving EMS measures, the report notes.

Officials took Price to the hospital, where he died three days later.

Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne said evidence at the scene, diagrams, officer statements, surveillance and body camera footage are all consistent with each other.

“A knife is a dangerous weapon and poses a grave danger of great bodily harm and/or death to an individual,” he said. “A person who is armed with a knife who does not follow directions to drop the weapon and stop as directed by police may pose a threat of great bodily harm and/or death to officers.”

Price’s family said that they reviewed the body camera footage, calling it “sad and disturbing.”