The Atlanta City Council in Georgia unanimously voted for a compromise with a former Atlanta police officer, which was acquitted in a deadly shooting of 2019.
According to Fox 5 Atlanta, the city council has agreed to settle for $ 1.4 million with Oliver Simmonds.
In 2022, Simmonds was accused of killing hooliganism, attacked with a deadly weapon, and on July 15, 2019, in two cases of violation of the pledge of the public office, there was a fatal shooting at a gas station in the Kasalley Hill neighborhood.
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The city council has agreed to compromise with Oliver Simmond for $ 1.4 million. (Atlanta Police Department)
After his testing in September 2023, a jury did not blame Simmond after four -hour deliberations.
Simmonds, assigned to the executive protection unit of the then Democrat Mayor Kisha Lance Bottoms, were wearing off-duty and plain clothes at the time of shooting.
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A jury did not find Oliver Simmonds guilty after its test in September 2023. (Getty image)
He was pumping a gas at a shell station near the intersection of McDaniel and Whitehall roads when he came in contact with 18 -year -old D’Trick Griffin.
According to the police, Griffin tried to go away by going to the driver’s seat of the identified police SUV. Simmonds then fired his gun in Griffin, killing the teenager, who came into the vehicle after some time.
Oliver Simmonds was wearing plain clothes at off-duty and shooting. (Atlanta Police Department/ Facebook)
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Griffin died of suffering injuries in the incident.
