The moves comes after a regular grand jury declined to indict the officer who shot and killed Timothy McCree Johnson.
Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano said Tuesday he had requested a special grand jury to investigate the fatal police shooting of an unarmed Black man outside of Tysons Corner Center, reviving the possibility that an officer would be charged in the case a week after a regular grand jury refused to do so.“After considering all options on a path forward, I have elected to request a special grand jury,” Descano said.
Carl Crews, an attorney for the Johnson family, said Tuesday he hoped Shifflett would be held accountable in Johnson’s killing.“I believe that the Commonwealth feels that there was a crime committed,” Crews said. “And so Descano’s definitely pursuing this in that fashion.” But Caleb Kershner, Shifflett’s attorney, blasted Descano for not respecting the regular grand jury’s declination.
“I think this is further evidence that the Commonwealth does not respect the process and so this is an attempt to try to manipulate the process to get what they want,” Kershner said. “The grand jury spoke and the Commonwealth doesn’t respect [the] grand jury and therefore they don’t respect the citizens.”
Crews said that a judge approved Descano’s request to impanel a special grand jury. He had previously said in a statement that Fairfax County police detectives “turned the Grand Jury away from returning an indictment” in their presentation of evidence last week to the panel.
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