Officers Who Killed John Crawford WILL NOT Face Charges
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Grand jury declines to indict officers involved in fatal Walmart shooting
Two police officers will not face charges over killing of John Crawford III, who was shot while carrying a BB rifle in the store.
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A grand jury in Ohio has decided not to indict two police officers involved in the fatal shooting of a man
carrying a BB rifle in a Walmart store last month.
John Crawford III was shot dead in the Walmart in Beavercreek, a suburb of Dayton, after picking up the unpackaged air rifle and walking to another aisle.
A customer called 911 to say that Crawford, 22, was pointing the rifle at passersby including children. He later
altered his account, saying that Crawford was “waving it around”.
A special grand jury convened in Greene County announced its decision not to indict on Wednesday, the third day of deliberations.
The two officers involved, Sergeant David Darkow and Officer Sean Williams
, were placed on leave by Beavercreek police following the incident
. Darkow returned to work before Williams.
Crawford’s father, John Crawford Jr, told the Guardian earlier this month that he believed the shooting was “an execution” and “flat-out murder”.
Surveillance footage of the incident from the Walmart store was shown to the grand jury. Prosecutors also played the footage at a press conference following the decision on Wednesday.
Williams was the officer behind the only other fatal police shooting in Beavercreek in recent memory. In 2010, he shot dead Scott Brogli, a retired master sergeant in the US air force.
According to Williams and a colleague, Brogli charged at them with a large knife after they went to investigate the 45-year-old’s drunken beating of his wife. A grand jury declined to bring any charges in that case.