A new review of the case led by a team of prosecutors concluded that former Officer Anthony Pirone cannot be charged with any crimes, said Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley
No Charges for Second Officer Involved in Shooting of Oscar Grant, D.A. Says
Months after the Bay Area authorities reopened an investigation into the 2009 shooting, the Alameda County district attorney said a former transit officer, Anthony Pirone, would not face charges.
A memorial of Oscar Grant in Oakland, Calif., in 2010.Credit.Paul Sakuma/Associated Press
Jan. 12, 2021
Charges will not be filed against Anthony Pirone, a former transit officer involved in the fatal shooting of Oscar Grant III at a Bay Area train station, months after an investigation into the 2009 killing was reopened, an official said Monday.
The Alameda County district attorney, Nancy O’Malley, said in a newly released report that Mr. Pirone could be found guilty of murder only if he personally killed Mr. Grant or if he aided and abetted the actual killer. Her office concluded that he did neither, calling another officer Mr. Grant’s “sole and actual killer.”
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - More than a decade after a white former policeman was convicted of manslaughter for shooting an unarmed Black .