The charges stem from a Sept. 10 shooting that seriously injured a teen, who was with a 15-year-old friend at the time.

First Judicial District Attorney Alexis King officially charged 38-year-old Brent John Metz in connection with the shooting of a 17-year-old.

Brent Metz is accused of shooting a teen in the face after that teen came to his property to ask about taking homecoming photos.

A Colorado city council member is facing lessened charges after officials say he shot a teenager he believed was trespassing.The victim, according to law enforcement, said he and a friend were just trying to find a place to take homecoming pictures.

Brent Metz, the Mountain View town councilman accused of shooting a 17-year-old boy in the face in Conifer last week, has been formally charged with four felonies.

First Judicial District Attorney Alexis King announced that 38-year-old Brent Metz was formally charged with second-degree assault, menacing and illegal discharge of a firearm. Metz has been a Mountain View council member since at least 2021.

A town councilman has been formally charged with assault and other felony charges after allegedly shooting a teenager he thought was trespassing on his girlfriend’s property.