Loebs said he still couldn’t release the name of the deputy who fired the shots or details of the shooting. He said a Critical Incident Task Force from an outside agency submitted a report to him, and he forwarded it to the Ada County prosecuting attorney’s office.

“(They’ll) look at it for a legal opinion because of the possible conflict given the way the case is working out,” Loebs said.

The prosecutor expects Ada County prosecutors to make a decision in the coming weeks.

“This is the same format we follow with every officer-involved shooting,” Loebs said. “This was a little different as I was waiting to see whether it looked like the sort of thing that needed to be handled that way, and I thought that it should be.”

Loebs said by passing the case to Ada County, prosecutors there can make an unbiased, independent decision.

“It’s a process we developed … to make certain there’s a fair and objective analysis without the knowledge of the personalities or people involved,” Loebs explained. “So if I knew the officer who did this, worked with him a bunch of times, I’m probably not the best person to look at the information; so you send it to someone else.”