A grand jury decided not to bring charges against a police officer who fatally shot and killed a teenage boy after a car chase last summer in a suburb near Atlanta.
A grand jury heard evidence of the death of 17-year-old Vincent Truitt on Thursday. The grand jury’s decision clears the officer who killed the teenager, the Atlanta Journal’s Constitution reports.
Truitt was shot twice in the back on July 13 after getting out of a stolen car after a car chase near Austell in Cobb County, about 15 miles west of downtown Atlanta. He was one of three teenagers in the vehicle that was discovered by police around 11:20 p.m. that evening. He later died in a hospital.
“There is no justice in Cobb County,” Attorney Gerald Griggs, an attorney for Truitt’s family, told the newspaper. “A man was shot in the back while running away from law enforcement. He posed no threat and was shot in the back and killed. “
Griggs and his family colleague Jackie Patterson had asked county officials to post a videotape of the shooting while urging prosecutors to bring murder charges against the officer, whose name has not yet been released.
Police said Truitt had a gun and within seconds of being chased by an officer, Truitt was shot twice. Cobb County prosecutors said video and stills showed the gun Truitt was holding when he was shot.
Cobb County police have confirmed that the officer is still employed in the department.
District Attorney Flynn Broady Jr. said the case is now considered closed.
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