DeKalb County police early Friday morning released bodycam footage and two 911 calls related to a shooting in which at least two officers fired multiple rounds at a Black man who moments later died inside a house he said was his own.
Police and the DeKalb medical examiner’s office did not respond to questions by deadline about whether the shots wounded or killed Matthew Zadok Williams, but Mawuli Davis, an attorney for Williams’ family, said the 35-year-old Black man was hit twice.
Williams, who babysat for his 10 nieces and nephews and liked to trade stocks, had five older sisters who earlier this week demanded that DeKalb County release bodycam footage of the shooting.
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