22-year-old Miguel Estrella was shot to death by Officer Nicholas Sondrini during a 911 call on March 25th, prompting local protest and calls for justice and reform. While witnesses, Estrella’s family, and official accounts maintain he was experiencing a mental health crisis, an internal Pittsfield Police report said he did not qualify as a person in crisis and exonerated Sondrini of any responsibility for the killing.
DA Andrea Harrington has been pursuing a criminal investigation into the incident.
“We have a draft of our facts section that we're finalizing for our findings of fact and we are currently drafting our legal findings," she told WAMC. "We're pulling together the entire investigation. We've gotten certain things translated into Spanish for Mr. Estrella’s family, and we're putting everything together and we will definitely be sharing that with the family first.”
Harrington says the report will be delivered before August.
