Posted on 10/28/2015 10:42:05 AM PDT by Fundamentally Fair
SENECA, S.C. No criminal charges will be filed against a South Carolina police officer who fatally shot a 19-year-old during a drug sting, a state prosecutor announced Tuesday.
Solicitor Chrissy Adams said that after reviewing the case, she has determined Seneca officer Mark Tiller won't face state charges. The U.S. Department of Justice also is investigating, and Adams said she won't release additional information while those federal authorities decide whether they'll bring charges against Tiller.
The family of the 19-year-old, Zachary Hammond, wanted Adams removed from the case because she works closely with local police, but the state Supreme Court rejected the request.
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Probably cases of fired cartridges.
From the article: "Autopsy reports confirmed that the victim tested positive for cocaine and marijuana".
And accompanied by his fugly methhead girlfriend. BOTH OF WHOM had active warrants out on them. Dead kid tested positive for cocaine and dope.
Source:" She also wrote that a forensic analysis showed that the teen had used cocaine and marijuana three to six hours before being fatally shot by Tiller. The investigation also revealed Hammond possessed these drugs, WHNS reported. Facts established during the investigation into the shooting revealed that the teen was resisting and attempting to evade arrest, Adams said. He also had an active warrant out for his arrest. The solicitor wrote that around 840 pages of text messages recovered from Hammond's cell phone 'indicate that Hammond had been on a dangerous and destructive course for a significant period of his life.'
In other words: GOOD SHOOTING OFFICER....on less drug dealer left on the streets.
Yeah right. Police are equal opportunity assassins.
Non sequitur : Kid in a chair probably didn't have dope in her system, in her car, and with active warrants and part of an ACTIVE drug investigation. However they BOTH stupidly chose to resist authority. AND LOST.
Kill some kid driving away in a car? Wrist slap.
Here let me correct your statement:
Kill some kid drug dealing suspect with an active warrant driving away fleeing a certified LEO acting in accordance with his duties with a valid suspicion of active drug dealing in a car? Wrist slap. Justice served. Play stupid games. Win stupid prizes.
But they were on their first date...
The solicitor wrote that around 840 pages of text messages recovered from Hammond's cell phone 'indicate that Hammond had been on a dangerous and destructive course for a significant period of his life.'
Good thing he got killed then, or he would have killed himself.
Meth head, drug dealing girlfriend in the car is lucky that he didn't threaten to kill her like he did his ex-girlfriend......and I bet she didn't know that he was a known, local, drug dealer with a penchant for running from cops.
The thug life chose him.
“He a never tried to run over the cop. Ever.”
Well, we disagree on that.
Now what?
Then you get glasses. It’s a fact.
“Then you get glasses. Itâs a fact.”
That’s been a fact since about 1979.
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