Atlanta approved $1.4 million settlement for the acquittal of the 2019 fatal shooting.
Atlanta, Georgia City Council voted unanimously on Monday to pass a former Atlanta police officer who was acquitted in a fatal shooting in 2019.
According to Fox 5 Atlanta, the city council has agreed to settle with Oliver Simmonds for $1.4 million.
In 2022, Simmonds was charged with felony murder, aggravated the attack with a deadly weapon, and a fatal shooting occurred at a gas station near Castlebury Hill on July 15, 2019.
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The city council has agreed to settle with Oliver Simmonds for $1.4 million. (Atlanta Police Department)
The jury found Simmonds not guilty after four hours of deliberation following the September 2023 trial.
Simmonds was assigned to the executive protection department of then-Democratic Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, and was suitable for the shooting, wearing plain clothes.
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The jury found Oliver Simmonds innocent after a trial in September 2023. (Getty Image)
He pumped oil at the Shell Station near the intersection of McDaniel and White Hall streets when he was in contact with 18-year-old D’Ettrick Griffin.
According to police, Griffin jumped into the driver’s seat of Simmonds’ unmarked police SUV and tried to drive away. Simmonds then fired a gun at Griffin and shot the teenager, who soon hit the vehicle.
Oliver Simmonds got off work and wore light colors when the shooting was shot. (Atlanta Police Department/Facebook)
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Griffin died of the injuries he suffered in the incident.
