Billings Police justified in 2020 killing of Cole Stump, inquest jury finds

AJ Etherington

Billings Gazette

Two sisters of a Rocky Boy man shot to death by police in Billings are unsatisfied with the findings of an inquest into their brother’s shooting.

Following a daylong coroner’s inquest, a Yellowstone County jury found Billings police were justified in shooting Cole Stump to death in 2020.

Stump was killed by police Oct. 12, 2020, after a confrontation in an apartment parking lot near the 2200 Block of Avenue C in central Billings.

Despite the findings of the inquest, Stump’s sisters Tonya Stump and Tasheena Duran remain unsatisfied with many aspects of the invest...