JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) A northeast Arkansas prosecutor has cleared two
Jonesboro police officers in the fatal shooting of a homicide suspect.
Prosecuting Attorney Scott Ellington said Tuesday officers Bryan Bailey
and Christopher Jefferson will not be charged in the March 7th shooting death of
46-year-old Rodney Fisher.
Ellington says in a letter to Arkansas State Police Col. Bill Bryant Fisher refused to drop a gun he was holding and was shot when he “raised the pistol toward officers.”
Fisher died later at a hospital.
Police have said the officers were investigating suspected drug activity and
possible trespassing at a vacant apartment when they encountered Fisher, who was
wanted on a murder warrant in the February shooting death of David Allen
Marshall in Jonesboro.
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