Atlanta approves $1.4M settlement for police officer acquitted in 2019 fatal shooting

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The Atlanta City Council successful Georgia unanimously voted connected Monday to settee with a erstwhile Atlanta constabulary serviceman who was acquitted successful a deadly 2019 shooting.

The metropolis assembly has agreed to settee with Oliver Simmonds for $1.4 million, according to Fox 5 Atlanta.

In 2022, Simmonds was charged with felony murder, aggravated battle with a deadly weapon, and 2 counts of usurpation of an oath of nationalist bureau successful the July 15, 2019, fatal shooting astatine a state presumption successful the Castleberry Hill neighborhood.

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The metropolis assembly has agreed to settee with Oliver Simmonds for $1.4 million. (Atlanta Police Department)

A assemblage determined Simmonds was not blameworthy aft 4 hours of deliberations pursuing his proceedings successful September 2023.

Simmonds, assigned to then-Democrat Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms’s Executive Protection Unit, was off-duty and wearing plain apparel astatine the clip of the shooting.

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A assemblage recovered Oliver Simmonds not blameworthy pursuing his proceedings successful September 2023. (Getty Images)

He was pumping state astatine a Shell presumption adjacent the intersection of McDaniel and Whitehall streets erstwhile helium came into interaction with 18-year-old D'Ettrick Griffin.

According to police, Griffin hopped into the driver’s spot of Simmonds’ unmarked constabulary SUV and attempted to thrust away. Simmonds past fired his weapon astatine Griffin, striking the teenager, who drove disconnected successful the conveyance earlier crashing soon after.