Echoes of Breonna Taylor in shooting of Black man in Georgia
By KATE BRUMBACKJune 15, 2021 GMT
ATLANTA (AP) Johnny Lorenzo Bolton was lying with his eyes closed on a couch in his apartment near Atlanta when police serving a narcotics search warrant burst through the front door with guns drawn and no warning.
Bolton stood up and at least one of the officers fired, sending two bullets into Bolton’s chest. The 49-year-old Black man died from his injuries.
Details of the pre-dawn encounter in December most of which come from a lawyer representing Bolton’s family resemble a case that is well known nationwide: the killing nine months earlier of Breonna Taylor in Kentucky. The 26-year-old Black woman also died after being shot by officers serving a drug search warrant at her apartment.
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