Chattanooga Times Free Press

One year later, mother asks why 76 bullets riddled son’s body

- BY ELLEN ELDRIDGE THE ATLANTA JOURNALCON­STITUTION (TNS)

One year after a man was shot 76 times by U.S. marshals, his family still has questions.

“We’re demanding justice,” Monteria Robinson said about her son. “I want to know why 76 bullets entered my son’s body. We’re at his one-year anniversar­y and we still have no answers.”

Jamarion Robinson was shot and killed one year ago at an Atlanta-area apartment complex.

Video taken by a witness shows agents burstin in the front door on July 28, 2016, followed by almost three minutes filled with bursts of gunfire, Channel 2 Action News reported.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigat­ion said a handgun was found next to the 26-year-old’s body, but Robinson’s family and their lawyer, Mawuli Davis, said he never fired a shot.

Robinson was shot several times through his hands, the news station reported.

At a news conference Friday, Davis held up graphic crime scene photos showing Robinson’s shot-up hands and questioned whether he would have been able to hold a gun, much less fire.

The GBI initially investigat­ed the deadly use of force and turned its findings over to the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office. But the district attorney, in a statement, said the office is still waiting on more informatio­n from the federal agency before it can move forward with its investigat­ion and make a decision on any possible charges in the case.

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