U.S. Marshals will not be charged in the fatal shooting in June of Winston Smith Jr., a Black man, as he sat in an SUV in Minneapolis, prosecutors say. A woman who was with Smith has said the officers were not in uniform and didn't identify themselves.
., a Black man who was killed while authorities were trying to arrest him as he sat in an SUV at a Minneapolis parking ramp, a prosecutor announced Monday.
Crow Wing County Attorney Don Ryan, the central Minnesota prosecutor who reviewed the case because prosecutors in the Twin Cities area had conflicts of interest, said in a letter dated last Wednesday that the task force members were justified in using deadly force when they shot Smith on June 3 as they tried to arrest him for allegedly being a felon in possession of a firearm. The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office announced the decision Monday.
Smith, 32, of St. Paul, was in a parked SUV when he was shot. The U.S. Marshals Service has said he didn’t comply and “produced a handgun resulting in task force members firing upon the subject.”The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said evidence indicated Smith fired his gun — a handgun and spent cartridge were found inside the car. The Hennepin County medical examiner said Smith died of multiple gunshot wounds.
A woman who was in the SUV with Smith has said through her attorneys that law enforcement officers were not in uniform and when they surrounded the SUV with their guns drawn. Norhan Askar also said that she never saw a gun on Smith or in his vehicle, and that he was shot after he raised a cellphone to begin recording.
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