Officer cleared in shooting death
A Kingman police officer who shot and killed a local resident last fall has been exonerated and cleared of any wrongdoing through outside agency investigation and case review by deputy Mohave County Attorney James Schoppmann. He concluded that officer Shawn Wyma’s use of deadly physical force was legally justified. Schoppmann’s findings come in the Oct. 14, 2020 ordeal that culminated in the death of Jason Peters, 45. Police first responded at 12:36 a.m. to a report of a man wielding a machete and chopping bushes on his neighbor’s property in the 2000 block of Fairgrounds Boulevard. The subject later identified as…
