A grand jury meeting Wednesday declined to return an indictment stemming from a 2023 incident in which Esteban Lowery died during an encounter with Bowling Green Police Department Officer Matt Davis in which the officer was seriously wounded by gunfire.

Warren County Commonwealth’s Attorney Kori Beck Bumgarner said in a statement issued Friday that the grand jury “concluded that there was not a sufficient factual or legal basis to levy criminal charges regarding the death of Esteban D. Lowery.”

Davis was on patrol with a BGPD-approved ride-along on July 6, 2023, when the officer responded to a disturbance call at America’s Car-Mart on Russellville Road.

Bumgarner said that Lowery brandished a handgun during the incident and fired multiple shots at Davis, striking the officer and leaving him with life-threatening injuries.

“In the wake of the shooting, Lowery was subdued by a bystander at the scene,” Bumgarner’s statement said. “Upon clearing the scene, Lowery was found deceased and it was later determined that he died from injuries he suffered while being subdued.”

A BGPD veteran for 18 years at the time of the shooting, Davis spent months recuperating from his injuries and was presented at a Bowling Green City Commission meeting last November with the Silver Cross, bestowed to officers wounded or killed in the line of duty.

The Kentucky State Police investigated the incident, which involved a review of security footage from the area and footage from officer-worn body cameras, along with forensic and ballistic analyses form the scene, medical evidence and numerous witness interviews.

Members of Lowery’s surviving family gathered in August outside the Warren County Justice Center to call for more transparency from the state police regarding the circumstances surrounding Lowery’s death.

Lowery’s mother, Lori Lowery, said at that event that she received a death certificate that listed manual strangulation as the cause of Esteban Lowery’s death.

A KSP spokesperson said in August that the agency submitted the case for review on Aug. 6 to Bumgarner’s office.