Georgia officer charged in fatal shooting of handcuffed 19-year-old
TL;DR
A DeKalb County police officer, Derrick Harris Jr., was charged with involuntary manslaughter and two counts of reckless conduct after a 19-year-old man, Seth Jayden Eccles, who was handcuffed, was shot during an arrest tied to an armed USPS robbery probe; Eccles died at a hospital and an autopsy is pending. Harris has not yet been arrested and plans to surrender as the investigation continues.
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- DeKalb County police fatally shoot armed robbery suspect decaturish.com
- Affidavit: DeKalb officer accidentally shot 19-year-old in the back while he was cuffing him on the ground 11Alive.com
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