It's rare enough to see a law enforcement officer convicted of murder. It's even rarer to see it happen twice in one year. In June, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd. Chauvin placed his knee on the neck of the unarmed, unresisting Floyd for more than nine minutes and…
Huntsville city officials had spent $125,000 in public money to defend William Darby, saying he had been justified in using deadly force when he fatally shot Jeffrey Parker, 49, in 2018.
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“An innocent man was murdered. He called for help, and he got Ben Darby.”
An Alabama police officer was
convicted Friday of murdering a man who had a gun pointed at his own head. A
senior officer attempted to de-escalate the situation when Huntsville Police
Officer William Ben Darby disregarded her orders and suddenly shot the suicidal
man in the face.
Around 4:25 p.m. on April 3, 2018,
Jeffrey Parker called 911 to report that he was armed and planned to commit
suicide. Huntsville Police officers Genisha Pegues and Justin Beckles arrived
at the residence and found Parker sitting on his couch while aiming a gun at
Alabama Police Officer Is Convicted of Murdering a Suicidal Man
Jeffrey Parker had called 911 to report that he was suicidal and was holding a gun to his head when he was fatally shot by Officer William Darby, prosecutors said.
May 7, 2021
A police officer in Huntsville, Ala., was convicted of murder on Friday for fatally shooting a man who had called 911 to report that he was suicidal and who was holding a gun to his head when the police arrived, prosecutors said.
The officer, William Darby, who had been strongly defended by the Police Department and cleared of wrongdoing by a city review board, will face 20 years to life in prison when he is sentenced for the killing of Jeffrey Parker, 49, on April 3, 2018, according to prosecutors.