CAROL STREAM, Ill. — The DuPage County Prosecutor’s Office announced Wednesday that they are not charging any officers in the deadly shooting of Isaac Goodlow.

Goodlow, 30, was shot and killed in the 200 block of East St. Charles Road at Carol Stream’s Villagebrook Apartments in the early morning hours of Feb. 3 by police.

DuPage County State’s Attorney Bob Berlin released a lengthy narrative, which is below, highlighting his office’s decision on why they did not charge the officers.

Body cam footage of the shooting was released on March 1.

In the video, Carol Stream police shows the body camera of every officer in the apartment.

Footage from the first officer that entered the bedroom where Goodlow was is shown second. It shows the moments after a shot was fired and the officer yelled “Oh f—!” and “No, no no stop, stop” at other officers. His direction to “stop” was declared after a second gunshot, which prosecutors later said was an accidental discharge, was fired.

A Taser was also discharged by another officer, which struck the shooting officer, according to prosecutors.

Goodlow was transported to Central DuPage Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

There are no indications that Goodlow was armed.

The shooting officer was no longer employed by Carol Stream police as of May 2. That information was released Wednesday afternoon by the department.

This is the complete narrative of the incident verbatim from prosecutors, according to what State’s Attorney Bob Berlin released Wednesday. WGN News is not naming the officers because no charges were filed and took out the initials of others mentioned.

In it, State’s Attorney Berlin alleges Goodlow committed domestic violence prior to the shooting.

He also states that he is not concluding the shooting officer was justified in the use of deadly force. Instead, he said the State “cannot meet its burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that (the shooting officer) was not legally justified in using deadly force.”

The full narrative is below.

“On February 3, 2024, at approximately 4:14 a.m., Carol Stream Police Department officers were dispatched to 260 E. Saint Charles Road, Apartment (N/A) for a report of a domestic battery. The call was made by (N/A), the sister of (N/A), the victim of the domestic battery. On the call, (N/A) can be heard initially telling the dispatcher, “I have an emergency. This boy just jumped on my sister. We’re at Villagebrook Apartments.” After giving her address, the dispatcher asked (the sister) what happened. (The sister) stated, “He jumped on her. She came to our house screaming and crying. Her eye is black and her lip is busted.”

When asked when this happened, (the sister) responded, “Right now, right now.” The dispatcher asked if she needed paramedics and (the sister) responded, “Yes, we need everything. We want to press charges and everything.” The dispatcher asked, “Ok, is he still there?” (The sister) responded, “Yes, he right here behind me, but I’m gonna f* some s* up if ya’ll don’t. I want him locked up. I want him to go to jail. We want to press all the charges. And he has her phone.”

(The sister) then screamed, “Come out, come out.” The dispatcher asked twice “Who is he?” (the sister) stated, “his name is Isaac Goodlow.” The dispatcher then asked, “is he still there?” (the sister) replied “Yes, he has an apartment.” The dispatcher asked, “What apartment number?”(the sister) stated “(N/A).” The victim, (N/A), stated, “And my dog is in there.”

At 4:16: a.m., Officer (N/A) arrived at the scene. Officer (N/A) was joined by Officers (N/A), (N/A), (N/A), (N/A), Sergeant (N/A) and other officers at varying times. When speaking with the victim, (N/A), (N/A) told officers that following an argument with her boyfriend Isaac Goodlow inside their shared apartment, Isaac Goodlow “bust my f* lip. He hit me on my f* face.”

The officers observed a cut with bleeding to (N/A)’s bottom lip and a black eye. (N/A) told the officers she had been living with Goodlow in his apartment for the past three months. (N/A) gave the officers consent to obtain a key and enter the apartment and told the officers she was concerned about her dog and her phone was still in the apartment. (N/A) later stated that during the fight with Goodlow she ran into the bathroom, but Goodlow “busted the door down,” causing the mirror on the door to shatter, and threw her in the bathtub. (N/A) fought back and scratched Goodlow’s face as he continued to strike her. (N/A) was able to free herself from the apartment and ran barefoot from the apartment wearing only her underwear to her mother’s nearby apartment for help, leaving her phone, shoes, and keys behind. Prior to fleeing the apartment, (N/A) told Goodlow that she was going to call the police to which Goodlow responded, “I don’t give a f*** b*. Call the police. Call whoever the f you want. They’re gonna have to kill me or I’ll kill myself.”

(N/A) also related to her mother and sister that Goodlow said, “If you call the police on me, I’m gonna make them kill me.” (N/A) told investigators that Isaac was “mad, was in a rage, and was ‘talking s***.’” Isaac was talking to himself and (N/A) said she was getting scared. (N/A) further told officers that as she ran to her mother’s apartment, Goodlow followed her and caught up to her in the foyer but ran back to their shared apartment when (N/A) screamed for her mother’s help. Officers later recovered a blue shoe in the courtyard, which (N/A) said belonged to Goodlow and must have come off when he was chasing her through the courtyard. After speaking with (N/A) and her sister, and running Goodlow’s name through LEADS, officers learned Goodlow was on probation for robbery and his name was associated with an officer safety alert for a criminal gang member, with a mention of unlawful possession of firearm/explosive bullets.

At 4:18 a.m., officers first knocked on Goodlow’s door and yelled “police.” One minute later, officers again knocked on Goodlow’s door and yelled “Carol Stream Police” and “Isaac, we’re trying to figure out what’s going on here man.” At 4:20 a.m., Officer (N/A) called Goodlow using the phone number provided by (N/A) but there was no answer. From 4:21 a.m. through 4:52 a.m. officers knocked, kicked, and banged on Goodlow’s door nine more times, once for twenty-five seconds and yelled “Isaac, let’s go, open the door. We need to get the dog,” “Isaac, come on.” Each time there was no response. Officers also attempted to contact Goodlow through (N/A)’s cellular phone, which he had shut off, and by shining a light in his bedroom window. When Goodlow did not respond to any of these attempts to communicate with him, officers sought permission from (N/A) to enter the apartment. (N/A) responded “Yes, I said you can go in there. Especially for my baby, my dog. And he has my cell phone.”

Fifty-two minutes after first knocking on Goodlow’s door, officers entered the apartment in single file at 5:10 a.m. using a key provided by a Villagebrook maintenance employee. Officer (N/A) was first, followed in order by Officer (N/A), Officer (N/A), Officer (N/A), Sergeant (N/A), and Officer (N/A). Officer (N/A) was carrying a ballistic shield in his left hand and had his firearm with an attached weapon light drawn. Officer (N/A) had his Taser device unholstered and in the armed position, with the light on. The other officers had illuminated flashlights. The officers loudly called out “police” and “Carol Stream police” when they entered the dark apartment, as Goodlow had turned off all the lights. The investigation reveals Goodlow was hiding behind the bedroom door when the police made entry into his apartment. After moving into the living room area, the officers turned left towards the bedroom and bathroom. As Officer (N/A) approached the mostly closed bedroom door, he asked, “go through this door here?” Officer (N/A) said “yeah, kick it open.”

Officer (N/A) pushed the door open with his right foot. A frame-by-frame viewing of Sergeant (N/A’s body worn camera video shows what appears to be Goodlow’s knee or thigh coming out of the bedroom door just as it is opening. As the door opened, Goodlow took a sudden and quick lateral step from behind the door and immediately stepped towards Officer (N/A) with his right arm bent and his right hand about shoulder height moving toward Officer (N/A) in an aggressive manner. Believing Goodlow was either pointing something at him, throwing something at him or reaching for his firearm, Officer (N/A) fired a single gunshot at Goodlow, striking him in the chest. Officer (N/A) discharged his firearm twelve seconds after the officers entered the apartment.

Dr. (N/A), the forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy on Goodlow, opined that the entrance and path of the bullet coursed left to right and downward, consistent with Officer (N/A)’s statement that Isaac Goodlow’s right arm was bent and his right hand about shoulder height moving toward Officer (N/A) when Officer (N/A) discharged his gun. Furthermore, the position of Goodlow lying face down on the floor between the bedroom door and the bed after he was shot, as shown on the officers’ body worn cameras and FARO laser scanned images, which showed a distance of 2.96 feet from the edge of the bed to the bedroom door opening, corroborates Officer (N/A)’s statement that Goodlow immediately stepped towards Officer (N/A) with his right arm bent and his right hand about shoulder height moving toward Officer (N/A) in an aggressive manner as the bedroom door opened and was not lying in his bed when he was shot.

Immediately after the gunshot, Officer (N/A) discharged his taser in the direction of the threat, which Officer (N/A) explained was the bedroom door, with one probe striking Officer (N/A) in the right shoulder and the second probe impacting the bathroom ceiling. Officer (N/A) pushed over Officer (N/A), causing her to accidentally discharge her firearm. The bullet discharged from Officer (N/A)’s firearm struck the brick wall behind the drywall in the bathroom and fell down the wall and under the bathtub, where it was recovered by investigators. Goodlow fell to the ground face down between the bed and the door to the bedroom. Officers yelled “cuff him up, cuff him up,” and put handcuffs on Goodlow and then rolled him on his back.

Officers immediately began life-saving measures including chest compressions. Sergeant (N/A) told Goodlow, “I need you to stay with me” and “open your eyes” as he was administering chest compressions on Goodlow. Officer (N/A) took over the chest compressions and told Goodlow, “Wake up, wake up, wake up Isaac” as he provided life-saving measures to Goodlow. Carol Stream Fire Department paramedics arrived soon after and continued life-saving measures. They transported Goodlow to a local hospital, but Goodlow died in the Emergency Department. Subsequent investigation found that in addition to Goodlow’s suicidal statements to (N/A), Goodlow had made statements of feeling homicidal and suicidal to the Wheaton Police Department following a prior arrest for domestic battery in January, 2021.

The above facts have been evaluated in the context of Illinois law governing the justifiable use of deadly force. In accordance with Illinois law, my staff and I have reviewed the facts and circumstances of the case with special consideration given to the perspective of the officer on the scene. It is important to remember pursuant to 720 ILCS 5/7-5(f) Peace Officer’s Use of Force in Making Arrest, the decision by a peace officer to use force shall be evaluated “from the perspective of a reasonable officer in the same situation, based on the totality of the circumstances known to or perceived by the officer at the time of the decision, rather than with the benefit of hindsight, and that the totality of the circumstances shall account for occasions when officers may be forced to make quick judgments about using force.”

The release goes on to showcase various Illinois laws Berlin’s office applied to reach their decision. It ends with this.

“To be clear, based on the results of an incredibly thorough investigation, I am not concluding that Officer (N/A) was justified in his use of deadly force. My conclusion, rather, is that the State cannot meet its burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that Officer (N/A) was not legally justified in using deadly force. Additionally, Officer (N/A)’s discharge of his Taser and Officer (N/A)’s accidental discharge of her firearm did not impact Isaac Goodlow or contribute to his death. As a result, my office will not be taking any action against any of the Carol Stream officers involved in this incident. I thank the MERIT Public Integrity Team for conducting a thorough independent investigation, the Illinois State Police Crime Lab, as well as Assistant State’s Attorneys Bernie Murray, Nancy Donahoe, Lisa Hoffman, and Helen Kapas.”

It is indeed a tragedy any time a human life is lost. Criminal charges can only be filed, however, if the evidence is sufficient to support a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt. I offer my sincere condolences to Isaac Goodlow’s family and friends as they attempt to come to terms with what happened that morning.”

March 1’s on-air report showing the bodycam footage is below.

Goodlow family attorney Andrew Stroth held a press conference Wednesday prior to Berlin’s release along with family.

Stroth pointed to Berlin saying that the State couldn’t meet their burden of proof and said the following.

“Let me be clear, we disagree wholeheartedly with his decision. If you watch the video, what you see is in less than a second, an unarmed 30-year-old Black man, Isaac Goodlow, this family’s son and brother, was killed by this officer.”

Stroth said they are going to move forward with civil action in the case.

“My heart and my soul is broken in pieces all over again, justice was not served,” his mother said. “I was justice for my son Isaac and I feel the pain all over again.”

Carol Stream police’s statement is below.

“The Village acknowledges that pain and sympathizes with everyone affected by this incident. The Village thanks the DuPage County State’s Attorney Office for rendering its decision in a relatively short time frame. We know the investigative process can be painstakingly slow. We also know that when a family is suffering a tragic loss that the answers cannot come soon enough.

As of May 2, probationary police officer (N/A) is no longer employed by the Village.

As is proper following major incidents, and consistent with the State’s Attorney’s recommendations, the Carol Stream Police Department has embarked on a thorough review of its policies and procedures. The Department is also participating in a thorough and robust accreditation process which is intended to ensure all policies, procedures, and practices align with modern policing strategies. Additionally, the Department has set up new training opportunities for officers that focus on communication, tactics, and decision-making.

Finally, we acknowledge that the tragic incident on February 3 has affected our entire community and it is our collective responsibility to ensure that these wounds are healed over time. One way to do that is by working every day to strengthen the bonds between Carol Stream residents and the men and women tasked with keeping our community safe.”

A protest and “speak out” event is planned for Wednesday night by community activists and the Goodlow family.