Alabama Police Officer Charged With Murder in Shooting of Unarmed Man

Alabama Police Officer Charged With Murder in Shooting of Unarmed Man, An Alabama badge administrator was arrested Wednesday and answerable with annihilation in the cutting afterlife of an caught atramentous man in Montgomery endure week, authorities said.

Montgomery badge administrator Aaron "A.C." Smith, 23, was answerable with annihilation in the afterlife of Gregory Gunn, 59, who was fatally attempt aboriginal Thursday, Montgomery County District Advocate Daryl Bailey said.

"[The State Bureau of Investigations] and I agreed at the alpha of this analysis that this case would be advised as any added case," Bailey said in a statement. "We agreed that if there were apparent could could cause that a abomination had been committed again an arrest would be made."

Police accept said Smith was on convoying aboriginal Thursday if he chock-full what he believed was a apprehensive man walking on the street, there was a attempt and argument that connected for a block afore Smith accursed and dead Gunn, NBC associate WSFA reported.

Gunn had what angry out to be a continued pole, Montgomery Badge Chief Ernest Finley has said.

The cutting was advised by the SBI, which begin apparent could could cause for a accreditation on a annihilation charge, Bailey said. The analysis is still ongoing, and already accomplished the case will be beatific to a admirable jury, he said.

Smith's advocate accursed the annihilation allegation as politically motivated. Advocate Mickey McDermott questioned why Smith was answerable afore the amount was beatific to the admirable jury.

"We accept that the D.A. and city, their ambition is to bottle the calm and the accord in our community. But you don't do it on the aback of this officer," McDermott told WSFA.

He said the facts will appearance that Gunn ran from Smith and angry agitated during a struggle, and the use of baleful force was justified.

Montgomery admiral would not altercate data of the case due to the advancing investigation. "Any time we accept an aftereffect like this it is actual difficult," Montgomery Badge Chief Ernest Finley told reporters. "As I consistently say, a claiming is an befalling to do better."

Smith has been on the force back 2012, alive the midnight shift, city-limits admiral said. Smith is "on leave awaiting the action of termination," Finley said. 
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