Georgia’s Atlanta City Council voted unanimously Monday to settle with a former Atlanta police officer who was acquitted in the 2019 fatal shooting.
According to Fox 5 Atlanta, the city council agreed to settle with Oliver Simmonds for $1.4 million.
In 2022, Simmons was charged with felony murder, aggravated attacks with fatal weapons, and two counts of violating the July 15, 2019 oath of office, and a fatal shooting at a gas station in the Castlebury Hill area.
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The city council agreed to settle with Oliver Simmons for $1.4 million. (Atlanta Police Station)
Ju judges ruled that after four hours of deliberation following the September 2023 trial, Simmons was innocent.
Simmons, assigned to the executive protection unit of then-Democrat Mayor Caishalans Bottoms, was unfairly dressed in ordinary clothes at the time of shooting.
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Ju judges found Oliver Simmons not guilty following his trial in September 2023. (Getty Images)
He was pumping gas at a shell station near the intersection of McDaniel and Whitehall Streets when he contacted 18-year-old D’Ettrick Griffin.
Police say Griffin jumped into the driver’s seat of Simmons’ unmarked police SUV and tried to escape in his car. Simmons then fires a gun at Griffin and hits the teenager.
Oliver Simmons was unfair at the time of filming and was wearing normal clothes. (Atlanta Police Station/Facebook)
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Griffin died of the injury he suffered in the incident.
