Six Colorado cops are charged over shooting death of distressed motorist Christian Glass who called 911 and made heart-shaped signals for help - as sheriff's deputy pleads guilty

Six Colorado police officers who were present when distressed motorist Christian Glass was shot dead have been charged for failing to intervene.

Glass, 22, was shot five times and killed last year in Georgetown after calling 911 for help and then refusing to get out of his car in an hour-long standoff because he was 'terrified.'

Clear Creek County Sheriff's deputies Andrew Buen and Kyle Gould were indicted on second-degree murder charges last year, and now every other officer on the scene when Glass was killed has also been charged for their role.

Police have now charged Georgetown Marshal Randy Williams, officer Timothy Collins, Idaho Springs officer Brittany Morrow, state trooper Ryan Bennie and Division of Gaming Officers Christa Lloyd and Mary J Harris in connection with his death.

Meanwhile, Gould plead guilty to 'duty to report use of force by peace officers - duty to intervene - a class 1 misdemeanor. He was sentenced to two years unsupervised probation and ordered to pay a $1,000 fine, and can't work as a police officer in Colorado ever again.

Gould was not at the scene when Glass was killed but gave the order to break the driver side's window as he watched the incident from a live-streamed bodycam. 

Former Clear Creek deputy Buen, who was also offered a plea deal, was the one to break Glass' window and shoot him with bean bag rounds before tasering him and shooting him five times in the chest. He has plead not guilty to second-degree murder and is awaiting trial.

Glass, from New Zealand, had called 911 for roadside assistance while experiencing what his mother described as a mental health crisis in June 2022. He refused to get out of his car because he was 'terrified' and made heart-shaped signs with his hands, and flashed a knife at the deputies. 

Officers talked to him to try to persuade him to leave the car. After more than an hour of negotiations, police said Glass was being uncooperative and they broke the passenger window and removed a knife from the vehicle. 

Glass's mother, Sally Glass, said her son suffered from depression, had recently been diagnosed with ADHD and was 'having a mental health episode' and was 'petrified' the night he was killed. 

At court this week, she said: 'Our son was a nice kid, and they killed a good kid. And I hope that Mr. Gould now, throughout his life, well, to think about being kinder, and more compassionate to people that are in trouble.'