Attorney General Flips Decision

New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald has reversed his ruling in regards to the shooting of Claremont, NH’s Cody LaFont back in 2016, reports the AG Office via release.

The incident in which Officer Ian Kibbe arrived at the home of LaFont, and after allegedly feeling threatened, shot and ultimately killed LaFont was originally deemed “legally justified”.

In March 2018, the AG’s Office was notified of a potential unrelated crime involving Kibbe while he was a police officer, and while investigating that crime, reopened the investigation into the September 2016 shooting. A number of factors, including Kibbe’s involvement in separate criminal activity, caused the office to amend their ruling as follows;

“Accordingly, based on a review of the case and considering all the evidence, including Mr. Kibbe’s subsequent criminal conduct and the questions it raised about his credibility as a police officer, the Attorney General’s Office can no longer conclude that Mr. Kibbe’s actions were legally justified.  Instead, the Office has concluded that it could not disprove Mr. Kibbe’s self-defense claim, beyond a reasonable doubt, and therefore no criminal charges will be filed against Mr. Kibbe as a result of Mr. Lafont’s death.”