Examiner rules Brooklyn police shooting a homicide
Shooting in East New York housing project was originally considered an accident
Politicians were meeting with prosecutors Monday following the New York City medical examiner’s ruling that the police killing of an unarmed man in a dark public housing stairwell was a homicide.
The medical examiner’s office said its finding that Akai Gurley’s death “resulted in full or in part from the actions of another person or persons,” a gunshot wound to the torso, “does not imply any statement about intent or culpability.”
“… The evaluation of the legal implications of this classification is a function of the district attorney and the criminal justice system,” the medical examiner said in a statement.