According to the Carson City District Attorney’s Office, a Carson City Deputy was cleared of any potential charges stemming from an officer-involved shooting that occurred in April 2025 in downtown Carson City.
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Based upon the evidence the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office gathered during its independent investigation, and the application of Nevada law to the facts and circumstances surrounding the officer-involved shooting of Alexander Allinger on April 17, 2025, the actions of Deputy Douglas Keennon were justified and were not criminal in nature. Deputy Keennon’s actions were within the statutory parameters of NRS 171.1455 and NRS 100.140 and were legally justified self-defense and defense of others. Unless new evidence or additional information is discovered that materially changes the analysis and conclusions, the District Attorney will not file criminal charges. The District Attorney’s review of this matter is officially closed.
During the incident, the deceased, Alexander Joseph Allinger, and his passenger Sarah Ladd were in a vehicle parked in a Casino parking lot near downtown when a deputy contacted them.
Dispatch advised that Allinger had an extraditable felony warrant for his arrest. According to the report, Allinger had a 2020 conviction for being a “a Felon/Addicted Person in Possession of a Firearm” out of Arizona, his last known place of residence. He had a prior felony conviction in 2022 for Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon, and was sentenced to prison. Then, in January 2025, an Arizona court issued an arrest warrant for parole violations.
When the deputy told Allinger of the warrant, Allinger “retrieved a firearm from inside the vehicle … [and] initially, pointed it at his own head.”
Editor’s note: It should be noted that within the larger report itself, it goes into more detail and describes several conversations that occurred between the time that Allinger learned of the warrant and the time he pulled a gun from the vehicle. Allinger was out of the vehicle smoking a cigarette, and asked deputies to allow him to finish smoking before being taken into custody, and asked if he could call his kids. He told deputies that he “wasn’t going to do anything” and “wasn’t going to run” and denied having drugs or weapons on his person. One deputy told him he could take one last drag then she was going to put him in handcuffs. He reached into the vehicle “seemingly to put his lighter away” then slammed the driver’s door shut. The deputy pulled the door open and deputies attempted to remove him from the car, at which point Allinger reached behind him and grabbed a handgun. Deputies took cover behind a nearby vehicle and drew their firearms. Ladd exited the vehicle and got on the ground, but Allinger exited with the gun to his head. He said he was going to “fucking kill himself” and deputies told him to drop the firearm. He then ran from deputies and tripped and fell to the ground in the parking lot of a N. Curry Business. He quickly got to his feet and pointed the firearm in the deputy’s direction. He then continued to run toward the northwest corner of the parking lot.
Deputies caught up to him in the parking lot and repeated verbal commands to drop his weapon. Allinger refused and instead tried to rack the gun. Allinger pointed the gun back at his own head, then down at his side. When he raised the gun and aimed it at the deputies again, the deputy shot once and Allinger fell to his side. He was still armed and “attempted to get back up,” so the deputy fired a second round. He was struck in the neck and torso.
Deputies kicked the firearm away from Allinger and placed him in handcuffs. He was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later.
The first round was fired at 9:34:28 a.m., the last round fired one second later. Additional CCSO personnel arrived at 9:36 a.m. and kicked the firearm away and handcuffed Allinger. First responders arrived on scene at approximately 9:38 a.m. and Allinger was pronounced dead at the scene at 9:50 a.m. Douglas County Sheriff’s Office responded and took control of the scene for the OIS investigation.
Under Nevada laws and statutes relating to self-defense and law enforcement’s allowed use of deadly force, the shooting was ruled as a justified case of self-defense for the deputy who fired his weapon.
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