PLATTEKILL — An Ulster County grand jury has chosen not to indict anyone in the death of Rodshan Pittman, who authorities say was blasted in the chest in June with a shotgun after stabbing his three friends while high on PCP and synthetic marijuana.

The incident happened at 7:15 p.m. on June 27 at a home on Crescent Avenue. The Ulster County District Attorney's Office says police received several 911 calls of people being stabbed at a house there.

An investigation found Pittman "went berserk" and attacked his three friends with a steak knife, police say. One of the friends had an infant.

According to the District Attorney's Office, while a man struggled with Pittman over the knife, a woman fled to a neighbor's apartment with the infant. Pittman tried to get into the neighbor's apartment and "was shot at close range with a legally possessed shotgun," the DA's office said.

The three friends survived, but the DA's office said one woman was hospitalized for more than two weeks with significant stomach wounds.

Ulster County District Attorney Holley Carnright didn't identify the shooter, but said it appeared shooting Pittman was justified. No charges were ever brought against anyone.

An autopsy found that Pittman ate phencyclidine, or PCP, and XLR-11, or synthetic marijuana, before his death, according to the DA's office. Police said they also found synthetic marijuana on Pittman when they arrived.

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