AMARILLO, TEXAS -- Update:

A Grand Jury has decided the fate of four Amarillo police officers. It stems from a shooting on January 30, 2011 that killed Claudio Trujillo, 24. The panel decided that the officers acted in self-defense and did no wrong-doing in the incident. 

"One person described it as mayhem once the shots had been fired," said Randall Sims, the 47th District Attorney. He said shots were fired, then officers fired, then, more shots were fired by others on scene. They created a map of that scene, when four officers fired 40 times in the downtown incident. "I know to some extent it sounds like there was a firing squad lined up, that's not what happened," said Sims. One of those shots fired by an officer killed Trujillo.

He was in the driver's seat of a Tahoe that police said was going to run them down. "The ballistic evidence matched everything that they had determined to have happened as to who fired shots and that sort of thing, as best that it could ever be done, including all the way up to where the rounds hit on the S.U.V." "We already based on facts and things that were being told had pretty well pieced together what we believed had happened but we were not going to go forward without further ballistic evidence to either support that or show us that we missed something," Sims continued.

The ballistics and physical evidence report was given to the D.A from the Department of Public Safety crime lab in Lubbock, Texas on Monday, May 9, 2011 then shown to the Grand Jury Wednesday, May 11, 2011. It took about 4 hours for them to review the testimony, statements of some 40 people, and the map. They decided the officers were protecting themselves. "The way they get to look at possibly no-billing someone under the circumstances is obliviously the issue of self-defense, which could be the issue of self defense of themselves or a third party. Both existed in this case," said Sims.

While that case is over, another stems from this incident. Michael Manyoun, 27, was arrested for deadly conduct, but they're still looking for a second gunman. "There were 380 shell casing as we said before, 40 caliber shell casings that we have recovered, so we have at least 2 different guns that were there that weren't Amarillo Police Department weapons," said Lt. Gary Trupe, with Amarillo Special Crimes.

During the Grand Jury hearing, the four officers were present, however, the Grand Jury elected not to speak with any of them. All four officers are back to their normal schedules.

In response to this decision, Attorney Jesse Quackenbush, who represents the Claudio Trujillo family, issued a statement. Originally ProNews 7 requested a telephone interview with Quackenbush, however he refused to answer our questions and faxed us these complete statements:

"At least three eyewitnesses to the shootings were never asked to testify before the Grand Jury. Instead the Potter County District Attorney decided to play fairy-godfather and withhold sworn eyewitness accounts of what took place. This is a sad day for law enforcement. Instead of admitting mistakes and attempting to prevent further from happening, they continue on a path of protecting rogue cops who spit in the eyes of our founding fathers and trample the U.S. and Texas Constitutions. Today our law enforcement community and elected D.A. sent a clear message that it's okay to shoot down and kill unarmed, law abiding citizens, especially if they are Hispanic. Today is not the end of this story. Soon all of the facts will be told but to a civil jury in federal court. In that venue that shooter cops won't have their fairy-godfather D.A. to protect them. The next jury to hear about this case will have all the facts, I guarantee it. Unfortunately, our local D.A. didn't have the intestinal fortitude to present all of the evidence."

In reply to that, the 47th District Attorney , Randall Sims, had this response.

"First and foremost, he (quackenbush) had no idea of what evidence was or was not presented to the Grand Jury. Number two, the three witnesses he is referring to, law enforcement does has a statement from the individuals. I want to ensure the citizens that every piece of relevant information that we have available was presented to the Grand Jury."

Update
Pronews 7 has learned the Potter County Grand jury took no action against the four police officers involved in the shooting. The officers have been cleared to return to work.

The 47th District Attorney, Randall Sims, has called a press conference for 2:30 p.m. this afternoon. 

Orginally posted
It's being reported the conference will be about the officer involved shooting that took place in February in downtown Amarillo.  One person, Claudio Trujillo, was killed during the shooting.

Pronews 7 will have a crew at the meeting and will be updating as information is released.