CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The N.C.
Attorney General's office says it will seek an indictment against the Charlotte-Mecklenburg
police officer accused in the 2013 shooting death of a former football player.
The Charlotte Observer reports
that the attorney general's office announced Monday that the case of suspended
officer Randall Kerrick will go to the grand jury on Jan. 21. Kerrick is
charged with last September's shooting death of Jonathon Ferrell, a former
Florida A&M football player.
A statement quotes state
prosecutors as saying they reached their decision after reviewing the
investigations of the shooting by the State Bureau of Investigation and
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police. George Laughrun, Kerrick's attorney, said the
announcement is nothing they were surprised about. Kerrick, who is white, is
charged with voluntary manslaughter in the death of Ferrell, who is black
