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Question of the Day By JACQUES BILLEAUD - Associated Press - Friday, January 29, 2021
PHOENIX (AP) - Prosecutors have declined to file criminal charges against a Phoenix police officer who fatally shot a man in the back eight months ago at an apartment complex where a neighbor had reported the man and his girlfriend were arguing loudly.
Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel said Friday that Officer Jeff Cooke wouldn’t face charges in the May 21 death of Ryan Whitaker because prosecutors can’t prove the officer’s decision to use deadly force was unreasonable.
MCAO: Phoenix officer will not be charged in shooting death of Ryan Whitaker
The Maricopa County Attorneyâs Office announced Friday that the officer who shot and killed Ryan Whitaker last year will not face any charges in the incident.
Posted at 1:37 PM, Jan 29, 2021
and last updated 2021-01-29 20:36:45-05
PHOENIX â The Maricopa County Attorneyâs Office announced Friday that the officer who shot and killed Ryan Whitaker last year will not face any charges in the incident.
Whitaker was shot in the back three times, less than three seconds after he answered the door of his Ahwatukee apartment in May of 2020.
Maricopa County attorney won t file charges against officer accused of shooting Ryan Whitaker
By FOX 10 Staff
Ryan Whitaker, 40, was killed at his Ahwatukee home in May 2020.
PHOENIX - The Maricopa County Attorney has opted not to file charges in the fatal police shooting of 40-year-old Ryan Whitaker.
FOX 10 first reported on the police shooting that killed Whitaker in May 2020 at an apartment near Desert Foothills Parkway and Chandler Boulevard in the Ahwatukee area on May 21.
Around 9:30 p.m. that night, a neighbor heard what he believed to be an argument between a man and a woman in the apartment below and called 911 to report a domestic dispute.
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Bush was sentenced Tuesday in Jefferson Circuit Court to life without parole for the murders of Maurice Stallard and Vickie Lee Jones on Oct. 24, 2018.
He pleaded guilty but mentally ill, which means the Kentucky Department of Corrections will be obliged to provide him treatment and medication.
In a statement, Commonwealth s Attorney Tom Wine said, Vickie Jones and Maurice Stallard were senselessly murdered because of the color of their skin. Our entire community and commonwealth had suffered a loss because of racial enmity.
Assistant Commonwealth s Attorney Milja Zgonjanin, who prosecuted the case, said: Our position is that there is nothing the criminal justice system could do to undue the harm Mr. Bush did that day. But he is now been held accountable and is no longer in position to do similar harm.