A former Colorado sheriff’s deputy was convicted of criminally negligent homicide in the shooting death of a 22-year-old man in distress who called 911 for help after his car got stuck in a small mountain community. The incident occurred in June 2022 in Silver Plume, a former mining town along Interstate 70 in the Rocky Mountains west of Denver.
The former Clear Creek County Deputy, Andrew Buen, was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide but was acquitted of the more serious charge of second-degree murder. The jury had the option to convict Buen on the lesser charge of homicide, which carries a sentence of up to three years in prison.
