The district attorney in Adams County has cleared a Denver police officer involved in a November shooting of two brothers in a Commerce City truck depot.

A decision letter sent Friday by Dave Young, district attorney for the 17th Judicial District,

to Denver Police Chief Robert White said that Officer Martin Tritschler was justified when he shot three times into a car occupied by Joel and Carlos Jurado.

According to the decision letter, Joel Jurado Jr., 26, the driver of the car, was shot once in the right arm and chest. Carlos Jurado, 20, was hit in the left shoulder blade and on the left side of his body near his lungs.

“Applying the facts of this incident to the applicable law, the evidence does not support the filing of any criminal charges against officer Tritschler for this incident involving Joel and Carlos Jurado on November 20, 2014,” Young wrote in the letter to White. “Therefore, it is the conclusion of the Seventeenth Judicial District Attorney’s Office that no criminal charges will be filed against officer Tritschler.”

After the shooting, White said investigating possible criminal charges against any of the six Denver police officers at the scene was the responsibility of the Commerce City Police Department.

Tritschler, a member of the department’s gang unit, is a 20-year veteran of the Denver police. According to the decision letter, he was the only officer to fire his weapon.

Police say Joel Jurado struck a Denver police vehicle as two officers approached his pickup truck on foot after stopping it because they suspected he was driving under the influence.

According to the decision letter, “The driver and passenger of the suspect truck continued to ignore numerous commands. The driver then put the truck in reverse and accelerated at (the officers). At that time, Officer Tritschler, fearing for the lives of (the officers), fired three rounds through the passenger side of the truck, aiming at the driver of the truck.”

Joel Jurado has pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree attempted assault with extreme indifference and one count of driving with a revoked license. Carlos Jurado has not been charged. The brothers’ family has accused authorities of withholding information in the case.

It was one of four incidents in seven months that involved Denver police firing at moving vehicles. Two suspects have been killed, and three have been injured. Police say at least three officers have been injured in the incidents.

Police and the city’s independent monitor are reviewing police policies on firing at moving vehicles.

Anthony Cotton: 303-954-1292, acotton@denverpost.com or twitter.com/ anthonycottondp