/ Surveillance video released by the Mecklenburg County District Attorney s Office shows U.S. Marshals Service task force members trying to arrest Frankie Jennings in his car just before Jennings was shot to death on March 23.
No charges will be filed against the deputy U.S. marshal who shot and killed Frankie Jennings in east Charlotte in March, Mecklenburg County’s district attorney said Tuesday.
District Attorney Spencer Merriweather wrote that officer Eric Tillman was “reasonable in his belief that he and other officers faced an imminent threat of great bodily harm or death” when Tillman opened fire on 32-year-old Jennings on March 23.
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No charges will be filed against the U.S. Marshal who shot and killed Frankie Jennings at a gas station on The Plaza in March, according to the Mecklenburg County District Attorney Spencer Merriweather III.
Merriweather also claimed that Senior Inspector Eric Tillman feared for his life when he shot Jennings.
Authorities were attempting to serve 16 outstanding warrants on Jennings, according to the report.
Officials say Jennings was accused of assaulting police officers at Carolina Beach the day before the shooting by dragging the officers from his vehicle.
The outstanding warrants were for the charges related to the Carolina Beach incident, two warrants for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, assault on a female, charges related to an incident in which Jennings was accused of shooting into a vehicle, and several other minor warrants, according to the report.
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