The city of Atlanta will pay $4.9 million to the family of Kathryn Johnston who was killed by police in a drug raid.
Three former Atlanta police officers were sentenced Tuesday to prison terms ranging from five to 10 years for covering up a botched drug raid in which a 92-year-old woman was killed.
A former police officer tearfully apologized Monday for his role in an elderly Atlanta woman's shooting death during a botched drug raid, and another told a judge he prays daily for the victim. "I used to think I was a good person," ex-cop Gregg Junnier said before breaking down on the witness stand during a sentencing hearing in a federal courtroom in Atlanta, CNN affiliate WXIA reported.
Three former Atlanta police officers are to be sentenced Monday for their roles in the shooting death of a 92-year-old woman during a botched drug raid in 2006, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
A jury convicted an Atlanta police officer Tuesday of lying to cover up the shooting death of an elderly woman during a botched drug raid.
The trial of an Atlanta cop charged in the cover-up of a police shooting of a 92-year-old woman opens. WSB reports.
Three Atlanta, Georgia, police officers were indicted Thursday -- two on felony murder charges -- in the shooting death of an elderly woman during a botched drug raid on Thanksgiving eve.
An informant cited in a search warrant as having purchased narcotics at an elderly Atlanta woman's house denies buying drugs there, authorities say.
Federal authorities will investigate last week's police involved shooting death of an elderly woman in Atlanta, the city's police chief announced Monday.
As family members spent Thanksgiving Day boarding up the home of a 92-year-old woman who was shot to death during a police drug raid, their spokesman said they will request a federal investigation.
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