Guard gets diversion in Memphis bus passenger’s death

Prosecutors said a security guard has been placed on a special type of probation in the death of a Memphis city bus passenger.

Shelby County’s district attorney’s office said 52-year-old Adicus Mitchell was placed Friday on three years’ diversion. Under the diversion program, Mitchell’s conviction will be erased from his record after three years of good behavior.

Mitchell, who worked for a security company that contracted with Memphis Area Transit Authority, pleaded guilty in March to aggravated assault involving serious bodily injury to 69-yearold bus passenger Robert Gray.

Prosecutors said Gray had been making obscene remarks to a female passenger at a bus station in May 2014. Mitchell shoved Gray out of the front door during a confrontation.

Gray landed face first on the concrete. He died three months later of head trauma.