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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — After meeting for eight hours, the grand jury submitted a document to the criminal clerk of court saying it will not indict Officer Randall Kerrick on the charge of voluntary manslaughter related to the shooting death of Jonathan Ferrell. A letter on the second page said the grand jury respectfully requested the district attorney submit a bill of indictment to a lesser -included, or related offense.

North Carolina's Charlotte-Mecklenburg police department says Jonathan A. Ferrell, 24, may have been seeking assistance after a car crash. But when he ran toward officers, the former Florida A&M University football player was killed.An unarmed North Carolina man who was shot and killed by police while running toward an officer may have only been seeking help after surviving a car crash. Jonathan A. Ferrell, 24, was shot multiple times when authorities say he surprised a trio of police officers with Charlotte-Mecklenburg police department by running toward them around 2 a.m. Saturday. Officer Randall Kerrick, 27, reacted by firing his weapon...