Boston Officer Won't Face Charges for Fatal Shooting

A Boston Police officer won’t faces charges after shooting to death a suspect who charged him with two kitchen knives and a carving fork last year, the district attorney’s office announced Friday.

Officer David Hansford was among officers responding to the Lattimore Court home on Lenox Street on April 5, 2014 for a domestic violence call after Remis Michael Andrews reportedly punched his girlfriend in the face. The victim directed the officers to a nearby home, where they searched for Andrews.

A 13-year-old boy answered the door and said Andrews was not in the home. But the officers soon saw him enter the apartment through the rear door. They asked Andrews his name, to which he responded, “Mike” and ducked out of sight.

The officers found Andrews in a small kitchen. They identified themselves and said they were there because of the domestic violence call. Andrews, who stands about 6’2” tall and weighs about 290 pounds, asked if he was going to jail. The officers said they just wanted to talk, but Andrews began yelling at the boy who opened the door and others inside the apartment.

Andrews began pacing in the small kitchen, where several knives were laying on the countertop. He began screaming that he was not going to jail and took off his sweatshirt, hat and glasses, before reportedly lunging at the officers with the weapons. The shooting was justified as self-defense, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley has ruled.

Conley provided Andrews’ family with a complete report of the findings, and met with the family along with the lead prosecutor to explain the results.