A now-retired Atlanta police officer who was indicted last month in the 2019 fatal shooting of a man hiding in a closet after running from authorities wants the case moved from state to federal court.
Sung Kim was assigned to an FBI fugitive task force when he shot Jimmy Atchison. In seeking to have Kim’s murder case moved to U.S. District Court, Kim’s attorney, Don Samuel, noted that Kim was working with the FBI’s Atlanta Metropolitan Major Offender Task Force at the time, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
“At all relevant times, Kim was acting under color of federal law, pursuant to his deputation as a member of the FBI AMMO Task Force,” Samuel wrote in a recent court motion.
A Fulton County grand jury indicted Kim in December on charges that include felony murder and involuntary manslaughter in a case that Atlanta activists have cited it as an example of unjustified police violence against Black people. Atchison, 21, was killed on Jan. 22, 2019, after Kim and other task…
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