Virginia police officer indicted on murder charge after shooting driver in hotel parking lot
Jessica Schladebeck
A Virginia police officer accused of fatally shooting a man as he attempted to drive out of a hotel parking lot has been indicted on several counts stemming from the violent confrontation, including murder.
Bristol police Officer Jonathan Brown is also facing charges of use of a firearm in the commission of a murder, and malicious shooting into an occupied vehicle in the death of Jonathen Kohler.
Officers responded to the Rodeway Inn in Bristol on March 30 to investigate reports of shots fired in the area. When they arrived on the scene around 4:30 a.m., Kohler was already seated in the driver’s seat of a 1994 Ford Mustang.