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Jonathan Daniel Mansilla

Age : 33

Gender : Male

Race : Latino/a/e

Date : 08/25/2021

Location : McDonald’s restaurant on U.S. Route 7 just south of Allen Street

City : Rutland

County : Rutland

State : Vermont

Agency : Rutland City Police Department; Rutland County Sheriff’s Department

Officer(s) :Corporal Christopher A. Rose

Cause of Death : Gunshot

Event : Killed by police during arrest

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

On 08/25/2021, at approximately 1:12 p.m., police began looking for 33-year-old Jonathan Daniel Mansilla of Coral Gables, Florida, after a driver reported that Mansilla had backed his Chevrolet Cobalt into another vehicle in the Goodwill parking lot on North Main Street in Rutland and left without exchanging information. The other driver photographed Mansilla’s vehicle and provided police with its description and registration number.
Mansilla was subsequently spotted south of Rutland in Wallingford. Rutland County sheriff’s deputies attempted to stop him, but he continued driving away. Police encountered him again in Clarendon and initiated additional pursuit efforts. At least one pursuit was discontinued because officers determined that continuing it had become too dangerous.
Mansilla eventually returned toward Rutland. At approximately 2:35 p.m., his vehicle rear-ended a UPS truck near Allen Street and South Main Street. Mansilla left the car and ran into the nearby McDonald’s. Rutland City Police Cpl. Christopher A. Rose saw him enter the restaurant and pursued him inside on foot.
Mansilla entered the men’s restroom and went into a stall. Rose followed him into the restroom alone. There was no body-camera recording of what occurred because the Rutland City Police Department did not issue body cameras to its officers at the time. No other person witnessed the confrontation inside the restroom.
Rose later told Vermont State Police investigators that he could see Mansilla’s legs beneath the stall partition. According to Rose, Mansilla suddenly opened the stall door and ran toward him while holding an object above or in front of him. Rose said he believed the object was some type of weapon.
Rose fired three rounds. Two bullets struck Mansilla in the chest. Mansilla collapsed and died from the police gunfire. Investigators subsequently determined that Mansilla was unarmed. The object Rose believed was a weapon was Mansilla’s cellphone.
Surveillance footage obtained later through public-records requests raised additional questions about what police did immediately after shooting Mansilla. The video showed Mansilla lying face down in a pool of blood in the hallway outside the restroom while Rose pulled his arms behind his back and handcuffed him. No one provided medical aid to Mansilla for at least two minutes after he was shot.
Mansilla’s nephew David Heria publicly questioned why officers did not immediately check Mansilla’s pulse or attempt to help him. Vermont State Police Capt. Scott Dunlap was later questioned by VTDigger about the delay in providing aid and said he did not believe it had been a concern in the investigation.
The investigation also uncovered an unusual dispute over evidence viewed by Rose before his formal interview with Vermont State Police. Rutland City Police allowed Rose to watch dash-camera footage from outside the McDonald’s before state investigators questioned him. Vermont State Police later objected to that decision and blocked Rose from viewing additional restaurant surveillance footage while its investigation remained underway. Rose’s attorney, Susan Edwards, sought access to the footage.
Vermont State Police investigated the killing and submitted the case for independent review. The Rutland County State’s Attorney’s Office recused itself, leaving reviews to the Vermont Attorney General’s Office and Bennington County State’s Attorney’s Office.
On 11/17/2021, the Vermont Attorney General’s Office announced that Rose would not be criminally prosecuted. Attorney General T.J. Donovan concluded that Rose reasonably believed Mansilla posed an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury when Mansilla came out of the restroom stall and moved toward him with the cellphone that Rose mistook for a weapon. Prosecutors therefore found the shooting legally justified.
Rose had served with the Rutland City Police Department for more than five years when he killed Mansilla. He remained with the department afterward and was subsequently promoted. As of 2026, Christopher Rose is listed by the Rutland City Police Department as a Patrol Sergeant.
A search for other fatal shootings involving Rose did not establish another publicly documented killing by him. However, the Mansilla case remains notable because Rose killed an unarmed man while alone with him in a restroom where there was no body-camera recording or independent eyewitness to the shooting, and subsequently released surveillance footage documented the delay before medical aid was provided.

SOURCE LINKS :

https://www.wcax.com/2021/08/25/1-killed-officer-involved-shooting-rutland/
https://vermontdailychronicle.com/rutland-police-shoot-kill-man-in-mcdonalds/
https://vtdigger.org/2021/12/08/new-video-shows-no-aid-provided-for-at-least-2-minutes-after-police-shot-a-man-in-mcdonalds-in-rutland/
https://www.wcax.com/2021/08/26/police-id-man-who-died-officer-involved-shooting-rutland/
https://www.wcax.com/2021/09/09/vsp-suspect-fatal-officer-involved-shooting-was-holding-cell-phone/
https://www.wcax.com/2021/11/17/rutland-officer-justified-fatal-shooting/
https://vtdigger.org/2021/10/29/vermont-state-police-block-officer-from-viewing-video-of-mcdonalds-police-shooting/
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/ag-clears-rutland-cop-who-fatally-shot-man-in-mcdonalds-bathroom-34275471/
https://www.mynbc5.com/article/rutland-officer-justified-in-decision-to-fatally-shoot-man-state-decides/38282069
https://rutlandcitypolice.com/about-us/