OLYMPIA, Wash. — No charges will be filed against an Olympia police officer who shot and killed a man experiencing a mental health crisis last year.
On Aug. 22, 2022, officers received 911 calls about 37-year-old Timothy Green acting erratically in public, first at an AM/PM and then at the Starbucks next door.
According to investigators, the officers were unable to get Green into custody and he walked into traffic when approached. They tried using tasers to stop him, but that didn’t work.
Investigators said the officers on the scene claimed Green came at one of the officers while holding a knife.
According to police, the Olympia officer fired and hit Green, who later died at a hospital.
Green's family said he was dealing with a mental health episode when the incident occurred.
His mother, Millie Green, told KING 5 in September of 2022 that her son, a father of two, was diagnosed as bipolar when he was a teenager. She said he struggled with drug addiction and finding housing for most of his adult life.
Green said she would have liked the officers who met her son that morning to have called for mental health professionals rather than having to use deadly force.
As part of an independent investigation conducted by the Capital Metro Incident Investigation Team, the Clark County Prosecutor's Office determined the officer's actions were lawful. With the investigation now complete, the Olympia Police Department plans to do its own review of the shooting.
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