Three generations of women are calling for transparency and justice surrounding the death of Eric Holmes, a young man fatally shot by a Clayton County Police officer last November.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has agreed to secure body-camera video of the incident, offering to sit with the family as a probe seeks to discover what happened to their son.
At the core of the story is a stolen car the officer was investigating.
“You didn’t have to kill him,” the man’s mother, Vakelvion Holmes, said. “I just want to know why he killed my baby.”
According to a statement released by the GBI, the officer, identified in local reports as Justin Stephens, arrived at IGM Surfaces, LLC in the Atlanta suburb of Morrow, Georgia, to investigate a stolen vehicle parked outside the company. The young man approached the officer and engaged him in a nonconfrontational conversation “but gave no indication of his connection to the stolen vehicle.”
An initial…
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