Five CSPD officers cleared of wrongdoing in man’s death

By Nia Bender

COLORADO SPRINGS – A review by the 4th Judicial District Attorney’s office found no wrongdoing by five Colorado Springs police officers in the death of a man who went limp and stopped breathing as he struggled with police during a psychotic episode back on May 24th.

After investigators spoke with officers and went through 49-year old Chad Burnett’s autopsy report, prosecutors decided Burnett likely died of complications from a “severely diseased heart” brought on as he resisted an arrest in his Broadmoor-area home.