Grand Jury Declines To Indict Officer Involved In Michael Jones’ 2024 Shooting

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Officials in Akron, Ohio, have cleared the officer who fired two shots into a U-Haul vehicle, killing 54-year-old Michael Donnell Jones during a stop in 2024.

On Aug. 13, after more than eight months of investigation, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI), under the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, concluded that there was insufficient evidence to charge the Akron police officer involved in the fatal shooting of Jones, a Black resident, last year, according to News 5 Cleveland.