Kansas
Kansas ex-undersheriff not guilty in fatal beanbag shooting
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) – A former Kansas undersheriff has been discovered not responsible within the dying of a person he shot with a faulty beanbag spherical.
Virgil Brewer was charged with reckless involuntary manslaughter within the October 2017 dying of Steven Myers in Solar Metropolis, 300 miles from Kansas Metropolis, Kansas.
A Wyandotte County jury deliberated for 4 hours after a weeklong trial earlier than returning the decision Wednesday.
Investigators say Brewer shot Myers with a faulty beanbag spherical from his private shotgun. Brewer and two different officers have been responding to a name about an armed man on a road after an altercation at a bar. Myers was not armed when he was shot.
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