No charges will be filed against officer Brentley Vinson of Charlotte, N.C., for his fatal shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, reports the Charlotte Observer.
On Sept. 20, Scott was shot and killed by Vinson after officers surrounded Scott’s SUV, parked in front of Scott’s apartment, and Scott exited his vehicle. District Attorney Andrew Murray stated that Scott exited his SUV while armed and ignored commands from officers to drop his gun. However, Scott’s relatives stated that Scott was reading a book in his car, waiting for his son to arrive from school. Both Scott’s relatives and witnesses of the shooting reported that Scott was unarmed. Police stated that a gun was found at the scene.
In a cell phone video of the moments before and after the shooting, recorded by Scott’s wife Rakeyia Scott, Scott’s wife tells the police to not shoot, and that he is unarmed, as police surround her husband’s vehicle. She mentions that her husband just took his medicine for a traumatic brain injury, an injury Scott’s relatives reported that he suffered after a near-fatal motorcycle crash he endured in 2015.
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