AG: No charges filed for Lansing officer, state troopers in 2023 officer-involved shooting

LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - No charges have been issued against the officer and troopers involved in the officer-involved shooting death of Nicolas Micko in 2023.

On Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, Lansing police officers responded to calls of Nicolas Micko acting erratically, running around the neighborhood carrying a rifle, pointing the gun at nearby homes, and recklessly firing the weapon at a neighbor’s garage, home, and into vacant areas along Irene Street. Police said when officers arrived on the scene, they heard gunshots and called for backup, and Michigan State Police (MSP) troopers came to assist.

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The Michigan Attorney General’s Office said MSP Troopers assigned to the Secured City Partnership, along with the Lansing Police Department (LPD) Violent Crimes Initiative, were currently working in the City of Lansing on a surveillance assignment. In response to the shooter’s radio alert, an LPD sergeant requested that the MSP Troopers respond to the scene.

When they arrived, officers heard ongoing gunshots and believed the scene to be an active shooter situation. Later, troopers and the officer found Micko running in their direction on Wayne Street.

Officials on the scene told Micko to raise his hands and get on the ground. He stopped running and began walking toward them. Micko then stopped and pulled out a pistol from his waistband before continuing to walk toward police.

According to the attorney general’s office, Micko ignored more verbal commands from the officers and troopers while raising the gun and aiming it at the officers. The attorney general’s office said three MSP Troopers and one LPD Officer shot at Micko, hitting him 14 times.

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He was then treated with CPR and other life-saving measures when paramedics arrived to take him to the hospital. He later died from his wounds.

The Michigan Attorney General’s Office said the legal issue, in this case, was whether the MSP Troopers and the LPD Officer acted lawfully when they used deadly force by discharging their respective weapons during their interaction with Nicolas Micko.

The attorney general’s office said the troopers and officers were justified in their use of deadly self-defense.

“The act is justified where the person (1) was not the aggressor, (2) acts under an honest and reasonable belief that they are in danger of death or great bodily harm, (3) retreats from the scene if possible and (4) the only recourse lay in repelling the attack by the use of deadly force,” the attorney general’s office said in a statement.

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