Governor Says NO Special Prosecutor For Pasco

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee has denied a second request to appoint a special prosecutor in the case of a Mexican man shot and killed by three Pasco police officers. This request came from the attorney for the victim's estranged wife and daughters.

Nicholas Brown, an attorney for the governor, sent a letter to Yakima attorney George P. Trejo Jr. denying the request.

The letter said nothing had changed since t

he governor told the Hispanic advocacy group Consejo Latino last month that he wouldn't appoint a prosecutor in the Feb. 10 shooting of 35-year-old Antonio Zambrano-Montes. Inslee said it was the job of the county prosecutor to decide whether to bring charges.

The shooting of the unarmed Mexican national sparked protests in Pasco, an agricultural city of 68,000 that is majority Hispanic.