Three officers charged on allegations they didn’t intervene to try to stop the fatal shooting of Christian Glass in 2022 reached a plea agreement with prosecutors that ended with their charges being dropped this week.

Clear Creek County Deputy Tim Collins, Idaho Springs Police Officer Brittany Morrow and Colorado State Patrol Trooper Ryan Bennie all faced criminal charges. All three were set to go to trial over the next two months.

“This case began when the Glass family suffered the loss of their son, a loss that should never have occurred,” said Col. Matthew Packard, chief of the CSP, in a news release. “While I wish the process to arrive at this outcome would have been different, I also understand the complexities involved. Our agency will continue its efforts to learn and grow following our involvement in incidents as a part of our drive for continuous improvement.”

5th Judicial District Attorney Heidi McCollum told 9NEWS that the three officers agreed to take more training and participate in a training video on intervening to stop excessive force. The video will be shared with departments across the country, some of which have already been using the body camera video of the incident to train officers on what not to do.

The video, which McCollum said has already been recorded, includes the officer’s perspective of what they did wrong that night, what they wish they had done now with perspective and how the incident has changed their lives, McCollum said.

The shooter, former Clear Creek County Sheriff’s deputy Andrew Buen, was convicted in the killing and sentenced to three years in prison last month.

Judge Catherine Cheroutes sentenced Buen, who was convicted of criminally negligent homicide by a jury in February, the maximum sentence. He will serve three years for the crime, with two years of mandatory parole. He will also concurrently serve 120 days for reckless endangerment and get credit for the 54 days he has served.

Body camera video released showed 22-year-old Glass was killed while locked inside his car in June 2022 after a long confrontation between him and Clear Creek Sheriff’s Office deputies and other agencies. He was stuck on a dirt road in Silver Plume.

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The footage shows Glass refusing to come out of his car while also telling police he’s “terrified” and making heart shapes with his hands to the officers. He can also be seen praying with folded hands, saying: “Dear Lord, please don’t let them break the window.”

When officers did break the window, Glass appeared to panic and grabbed a knife. That’s when police shot him with bean bag rounds and shocked him with a stun gun before he twisted in his seat and thrust a knife toward an officer, the video showed.

Then Buen fired his gun, hitting Glass. The footage showed Glass stabbing himself before he died.

Glass’s parents received a $19 million settlement in May 2023, the largest known settlement in Colorado history at the time, which also promised multiple police reform initiatives. 

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At the time of the settlement, Clear County Sheriff Rick Albers acknowledged that “his officers failed to meet expectations in their response to Christian Glass when he called for assistance.” Albers stepped down from his position in 2023 and recently died from an illness in December, according to a Facebook post from the Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office.

Glass’s father, Simon Glass, said after Albers’ resignation that the former sheriff apologized to them face-to-face for the incident. Albers also wrote Glass’ family an apology acknowledging that, “his officers failed to meet expectations in their response” to their son’s dilemma, but they said that he did not take responsibility in the letter.

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“This wrecked my life,” said Glass’s mother, Sally Glass, in 2023. “We don’t want Christian to be swept under the carpet. We don’t want Christian to be forgotten.” 

Former Denver Gazette reporter Carol McKinley, and Kyla Pearce, contributed to this story.