The Denver District Attorney’s Office on Friday filed criminal charges against Jordan Waddy, the man police shot outside a LoDo bar last weekend morning in an incident that also left six bystanders wounded by police gunfire.
Waddy, 21, was charged with three counts of possession of a weapon by a previous offender and one count of third-degree assault for his actions in the case, DA Beth McCann announced. The gun possession charges are felonies and the assault count is a misdemeanor.
Prosecutors did not, however, file a felony menacing count. Denver police had arrested Waddy on suspicion of that charge after alleging he had pointed a handgun at officers, precipitating the shooting outside the Larimer Beer Hall bar at 20th and Larimer streets around 1:35 a.m. Sunday. “Our ethics dictate that we only take cases and file changes that we believe we can prove to a jury,” Denver District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Carolyn Tyler said Friday.According to accounts from Denver police officials, officers approached Waddy after observing him in an altercation with another man outside the bar.
After briefly losing sight of him, officers saw Waddy again, at which point he moved to pull a handgun from his clothing, Denver police Cmdr. Matt Clark said at a briefing this week. In a probable cause statement, an officer at the scene reported that Waddy “pointed the firearm in their direction.” Three officers subsequently fired a total of seven shots at him. Waddy was wounded as were six other people. Three of the bystanders were seriously injured.At Wednesday’s briefing, Clark said Waddy did not appear to have his hand on the “pistol grip” of the gun as he pulled it from his clothes. Instead, he may have been holding it from the slide on the top of the gun.
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