No charges will be filed against an Adams County deputy who shot and killed a dog when at an incorrect address while responding to a burglar alarm.

According to a letter released by the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office, there isn’t sufficient evidence to say the deputy, Wilifred Europe, “needlessly killed the dog.”

In the letter, the district attorney’s office said it did find discrepancies between the deputies’ version of events and that of dog owner Jeff Fisher.

But evidence from the necropsy, including bullet trajectories, support the deputy’s version of the story, the district attorney’s letter states.

“Furthermore the necropsy performed on the animal revealed signs of blunt force trauma to various anterior, or frontal, regions,” the letter states. “Such evidence is consistent with the deputies’ statements that Deputy Europe kicked the dog in an effort to prevent an attack and it is certainly inconsistent with the theory that the dog was kicked after being shot as bruising would not be present after the death of the animal.”

Fisher told The Denver Post that Ziggy, his 8-year-old border-collie mix, was shot by deputies as the dog went out the door to greet one deputy who was still outside. Fisher said his dog was not aggressive.

He said deputies told him he could get a new dog.

His attorney, Jennifer Edwards, founder of the Animal Law Center, said Fisher was “extremely disappointed” and that she and her experts disagreed with the interpretations of findings from the necropsy.

“It’s highly speculative,” Edwards said. “There was plenty of evidence indicating the contrary.”

Edwards said she hasn’t filed a lawsuit in the case but said Friday’s findings did nothing to deter them from “seeking justice for Ziggy.”

It is not the first time Europe has been cleared in a fatal shooting.

The district attorney’s office also ruled Europe was justified after he shot and killed a man in February 2012. Europe said the man lunged for a gun — later identified as a pellet gun — during a traffic stop.

A friend, and one of the passengers who was also in the vehicle during that incident, disputed the deputy’s account of events, saying the man’s hands were in the air when Europe shot.