A federal grand jury will not recommend criminal charges against any members of the Pennsylvania State Police or Monroe County District Attorney’s office in relation to the shooting of 19-year-old Christian Hall in December 2020 and the subsequent investigation.

The United States Attorney’s Office informed the parties of the decision earlier this week.

“Jessica S. Davis, assistant counsel for the Pennsylvania State Police received word yesterday of the closing of the investigation from an assistant U.S. attorney handling the matter,” Monroe County First Assistant District Attorney Michael Mancuso posted on social media Tuesday.

Hall was shot Dec. 30, 2020, on the bridge at the Route 33 southbound overpass over Interstate 80 in Hamilton Township after police said he refused to drop what appeared to them to be a semi-automatic handgun. He had called 911, authorities said, telling dispatchers someone was on the bridge about to commit suicide.

The nearly hour-and-a-half encounter after troopers arrived on scene was captured on police cruiser cameras.

“The Hall family thanks the DOJ for investigating Christian’s homicide,” attorneys Ben Crump and Devon Jacob said in a statement. “The family understands and respects the DOJ’s decision. The lack of a federal criminal prosecution does not mean that a crime has not been committed. Rather, it means that the conduct in question is not believed to violate federal law.”

Crump and Jacob announced in August that a federal grand jury was investigating the shooting. That came nearly a year-and-a-half after the Monroe County District Attorney’s office determined the shooting to be justified.

“It is apparent, watching the video and looking at the evidence, that Mr. Hall wanted to commit suicide, but not necessarily by his own hand,” Mancuso said in March 2021. “He provoked the use of deadly force by state police. We have no indication recklessness or malice was present here.”

Hall’s family and friends, however, said he was crying out for help when making that 911 call.

“Unfortunately, instead of getting the help he cried out for, Christian got bullets,” Crump said in March 2021.

Mancuso said Hall was told nearly 100 times to put the gun down, but refused.

The gun in question, investigators said, turned out to be a pellet gun made to look like a semi-automatic handgun. It is a weapon, Mancuso said, that Hall frequently carried in the past and had with him in prior robberies.

Examination of social media found Hall was on the bridge up to a week before his death and had photographed the view from down below with the added text, “Who would miss me?” and similar messages. He also left an audio message for his ex-girlfriend, Mancuso said, saying farewell.