TOCCOA - The GBI has completed it's investigation into the police shooting of a northeast Georgia pastor, now two special prosecutors will decide what happens next.
Jonathan Ayers of Lavonia was killed in a botched drug bust back in September, and Thursday the Stephens county prosecutor recused himself from the case because he helped organize the drug task force.
A retired district attorney and a sitting D.A., neither of whom is being named, will now decide whether the officers involved will be charged or whether a grand jury should make that decision.
Their investigation is expected to be completed in about two weeks.
Ayers was killed as he drove away from a Toccoa convenience store by drug agents who say they fired at his car because he attempted to run into one of them. A young woman that Ayers' family says he had befriended was with him when he stopped at the store and she was the target of the drug investigation. She was not hurt and was not in Ayers' car.
(Georgia News Network contributed to this story.)
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October 6th, 2024
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