A Mississippi grand jury decided not to bring criminal charges against a sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot a Georgia man who was yelling “shoot me,” the state attorney general’s office said Monday.
The Hancock County Sheriff’s Department said three deputies responding to a report of an attempted break-in found Isaiah Winkley, 21, of Coweta County, Georgia, when they arrived outside a home in Kiln on Dec. 10, 2022.
A federal judge reviewed video recorded by an officer’s body camera that showed Winkley holding a steel fence post in one hand and candy in the other as he yelled “Shoot me” several times to the deputies.
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