Three Denver Police Department officers will not face criminal charges after they shot a man who was leaning over a LoDo apartment balcony with a pellet gun and threatening to shoot them and pedestrians.

Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey announced Thursday that Sgt. Theodore Maher, Cpl. Joseph Duncan and Officer Christopher Fayles were justified in shooting 57-year-old James Bronish on June 12 on the 1900 block of Arapahoe Street, near the Greyhound Bus Station.

“Officers were responding to a call of a man with a gun threatening citizens from a balcony,” Morrissey wrote in a letter to Police Chief Robert White. “They were also responding to a scene where the information first conveyed to 911 was that the caller would shoot any police officers who arrived on scene.”

From the ground, the officers and residents in the area believed Bronish was holding a sawed-off shotgun, the letter said. Later, investigators determined that it was an Eagle Daisy pellet gun.

Maher fired three rounds from a Colt AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. Duncan fired at least five shots and possibly eight from a Colt AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. Fayles fired four rounds from a 9 mm Glock, the letter said.

It was unclear which officers’ round struck Bronish.

Bronish was charged with multiple counts of felony menacing with a simulated weapon. His charges are pending.

Bronish lived in the high-rise apartment complex. He used a neighbor’s phone to call 911. He told the operator that he was going to shoot anyone who came to the apartment and would be waiting on his balcony, the letter said.

Bronish pointed the gun at two pedestrians and a security guard, the letter said. When officers arrived, he threatened them. The officers said they were at a tactical disadvantage because Bronish was perched three stories up.

Maher told investigators that Bronish leaned over the balcony and pointed the gun toward him. He and officers behind him were in the line of fire.

“So as that weapon came around to me, I thought he was gonna shoot,” Maher is quoted in the letter from an interview. “And my heart was racing and, as I came on target, I fired two rounds.”

Those shots missed, and Maher fired a third time.

When officers entered Bronish’s apartment, they found him lying on the floor. Two pellet guns were in the apartment. He told officers, “I’ve had a bad day and have made bad decisions,” the letter said.

The letter also said Bronish repeatedly apologized to officers who rode with him in an ambulance and who guarded him at the hospital. He also told them he had been depressed.

Security cameras on downtown light poles and at the bus station captured the incident. The three officers at the scene were wearing body cameras, but two officers — Duncan and Officer Matthew Clements — did not turn on their cameras until after shots were fired, the letter said.

The footage from Fayles’ camera “generally corroborates the statements of witnesses,” the letter said.