Officer Billy Shane Harrison then opened fire, shooting Ayers in the stomach. Harrison said he is expecting a lawsuit. In many cases, politicians (both Democrats and Republicans) are so afraid of being considered soft on drugs that they are reluctant to say anything critical of narcotics officers no matter how badly they screw up. In hostage situations, for example, a SWAT team can save lives. WebHe was one of the agents with the Mountain Judicial Circuit N.C.I.S. Hours before Ayers was killed, police say Johanna Barrett sold undercover officer Chance Oxner $50 worth of crack cocaine. Pedro Oregon Navarro; Houston, Texas, 1998. WebJonathan was shot by police in 2009. "The community reaction has been mostly negative," said the Rev. Ayers had not been a suspect in any drug investigation. They said he had given her a ride to the motel where she lived, and was giving her rent money when spotted by narcotics detectives. According to an interview Barrett gave to the North Georgian newspaper shortly after Ayers' death, the pastor had seen her walking near a gas station on her way back to an extended-stay motel where she was living with her boyfriend. Another then opened fire, Ayers was shot in the liver and later died in a hospital operating room. A concussion grenade was thrown into the apartment; Spruill, a city employee who was getting ready to leave for work, suffered a heart attack and died. Drug task force that killed an innocent pastor in 2009 also involved in burned toddler story*, For Ovechkin in winter, a deadline sell-off makes sense this spring, Commanders cut Carson Wentz and Bobby McCain, clearing cap space, The NFL deserves every bit of its raging Daniel Snyder headache, burned a toddler with a flashbang grenade. Ayers crashed his car, was taken to a hospital and died hours later in surgery. | 3. In a lawsuit filed last week, Abigail Ayers makes some astonishing new allegations about the competence of the police officers who killed her husband, the supervisors who hired them, and the law enforcement agencies and the grand jury that investigated Ayers' death. Smith, Junnier and Tesler faced a variety of charges from both the federal government and the state of Georgia. As he pulled out of the station, Ayers grazed Officer Oxner with his car. Individuals arrested and charged in complaints are presumed innocent unless or until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in court. 3.1.2023 12:30 AM, Jacob Sullum WebLOGAN A 29-year-old Ogden man has been arrested for allegedly shooting at a group of teenagers in Providence Canyon. The police were trailing Barrett at the time. Local law enforcement knew sorting out the shooting would be difficult. "They approached the vehicle. Abigail Ayers' civil suit also alleges prior disciplinary problems with both officers Oxner and Harrison, including alleged drug use. Though I know they can't all be good. They identified themselves as police officers, which civilian witnesses say happened. One of Harrison's two shots hit Ayers. Ayers was shot WebCNN video shows Pastor Jonathan Ayers' final moments. By the time Billy Shane Harrison received the Christmas card depicting Hell, he was numb to the damnation he had endured since he pulled the trigger and killed a fleeing man on Sept. 1. In September 2009, the young pastor Ayers was ministering to a young woman whom a Georgia drug task force was investigating on drug charges. Read our republishing, terms of use and privacy policies here. "If an unmarked Escalade truck pulled up where I was and two guys dressed like drug dealers jumped out with guns drawn and approached me, I don't think I would wait around one second to find out who they were or what their motives were," one person wrote in a letter to the Toccoa Record. He shot the 28-year-old Ayers in the parking lot of a Toccoa convenience store when the victim accidentally walked into an undercover drug investigation. It was WWII. He said the official explanation of what happened "flew in the face of credulity.". That substance abuser was a police informant who gave Boston narcotics officers the address of an alleged drug dealer who lived in the same building as Williams, but a SWAT team raided the wrong apartmentWilliams apartmentand after being violently shoved onto the ground and handcuffed, the minister began to vomit. 10. Ayers widow, Abby Ayers, lives in Gainesville and has retained a local attorney in the case. Idexx Laboratories Inc. Chairman, President and CEO Jonathan Ayers is on a medical leave of absence following a serious cycling accident that occurred Thursday. WebWhen they broke in, Johnston (who lived alone in a high-crime area of the city and kept a gun in her house for protection) assumed she was being the victim of a home invasion and The officers saw the woman in a car with Ayers and saw what they believed was a drug transaction, Bankhead said. WebAn 18-member grand jury in Stephens County in northeast Georgia ruled that the officer who fired two shots that fatally wounded Jonathan Ayers, pastor of Shoal Creek Baptist He was taken a local hospital, went into surgery and died an hour later. The wasteful use of public resources to pursue a petty drug offender and the aggressive and short-sighted apprehension of Jonathan Ayers that led to his death are bad enough. Heres when your childs school will get one. Some of the officers claimed that Paz appeared to be going for a gun, and they fatally shot him twice in the back in front of his wife. The woman reportedly told detectives she didn't have the amount that had been agreed upon, but she would get it later in the day. In Denver, one such person was 45-year-old Ismael Mena, who was shot and killed by a SWAT team during a no-knock raid on September 29, 1999. 345 homes proposed in this area at Hall-Gwinnett County line, Man indicted in strangling death, attorney says he maintains his innocence, These Hall high schools named Honor Schools for success in AP classes, Georgia Senate seeks to allow rural hospitals without permit. Attorney General Eric Holder recently addressed the war on drugs during a speech for the American Bar Associations annual meeting, calling for the United States to seriously reevaluate its harsh policy of mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent, low-level drug offenses. But in addition to the $1.6 million, slightly more than $832,000 was awarded to the plaintiff in legal fees and expenses. But the conduct of three Atlanta police officers in the killing of 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston was so unscrupulous that all three faced criminal charges. Copyright 2023 Salon.com, LLC. The officers claim they spotted Ayers dropping off a woman they were investigating as detectives in a multi-county drug task force. The woman who was in the car with Ayers was taken into custody and faces drug charges, Bankhead said. Hall school board approves $11M for giant classroom touchscreens. Same illogical cowardice outlawing hemp candy or shooting Mario Paz; El Monte, California, 1999. 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OnJuly 12, 1998, Houston officers raided Navarroshome based on an alleged drug users claim that drugs were being sold there. Accelyne Williams; Boston, 1994. Judge OKs $832K in legal fees in preacher shooting case, Damages awarded to widow cut to $1.6 million, SPONSORED: How to start a hiking, backpacking habit in 2022. Rickman told the AJC that calls to his office started the day after the shooting. The officers were undercover, dressed in shabby clothes and ski-mask caps. 3.1.2023 12:01 AM, 2022 Reason Foundation | At an inquest, a predominantly white jury decided that the shooting was accidental and that Baggett should not be charged with anything. Learn how your comment data is processed. One of the bullets reportedly grazed one of the victims. No drugs were found in her house. Attorneys for the city of New York agreed to pay $1.6 million to Spruills family. Franklin said in an interview with the AJC. 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An 18-member grand jury in Stephens County in northeast Georgia ruled that the officer who fired two shots that fatally wounded Jonathan Ayers, pastor of Shoal Creek Baptist Church in Lavonia, Ga., was justified in using lethal force because he reasonably believed he was in physical danger. Jonathan Ayers, Rodolfo Rudy Cardenas, Alberta Spruill, Mario Paz, Kathryn Johnston and others could have been prevented. The most recent, entered into court records Aug. 17, asks District Judge Richard Story to grant summary judgment, a determination made by a court without a full trial. Rickman was unavailable for comment Friday. Ayers then pulled into a nearby gas station to withdraw money from an ATM. A federal jury in Gainesville, Ga., said a reasonable officer would have realized that Ayers' LOGAN A 29-year-old Ogden man has been arrested for allegedly shooting at a group of teenagers in Providence Canyon. | In the courts view, it is unconscionable to ask that she wait whatever time is required for an appeal before she can collect her judgment without any assurance that the judgment will, in fact, be collectible.. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Radley Balko is a journalist at The Washington Post. He put his car in reverse and attempted to escape. Below are 10 innocent victims who became collateral damage and lost their lives in the war on drugs (there are many, many more). Friends said Ayers had been ministering to the woman trying to convince her to get off drugs. All rights reserved. On November 21, 2006, plainclothes officers Jason R. Smith, Gregg Junnier and Arthur Tesler carried out a no-knock drug raid on Johnstons Atlanta home based on bad information from an informant/marijuana dealer named Alex White. GAINESVILLE, Ga. (ABP) Two north Georgia police officers have asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit against them for their use of deadly force in a 2009 shooting that claimed the life of a Baptist pastor. Ayers, who had known Barrett for a number of years, offered her a ride back to the motel and gave her the money in his pocket, $23, to help pay her rent. Annie Rae Dixon, an 84-year-old African-American woman, was killed by a narcotics officer in Tyler, Texas on January 29, 1992. The woman was later identified as someone Ayers had been ministering to, trying to convince her to get off of drugs and turn her life around. U.S. District Judge Richard Story also decreased the initial amount awarded in damages and expenses. Ayers told hospital staff was that he thought he was being robbed. | Had war on drugs supporters learned a lesson from Navarros death, it is quite possible that the killings of the Rev. Ayers widow, Abby The surveillance video was on the Internet within a day of the shooting, fueling speculation and half-accounts that were repeated online and in letters to area newspapers. (She had allegedly sold an undercover officer $50 worth of cocaine.) According to Bankhead, Ayers then put the car into drive, and another officer fired into the car, hitting Ayers, because he thought his life was in danger. Police later determined what they had seen was not a drug transaction, but "other circumstances were involved, and that's part of the investigation," Bankhead said. A man shot another family member, an adult, whom he mistakenly believed was a burglar, Shortly after he got back into his car, a black Escalade tore into the parking lot. The shooting in a convenience store parking lot, captured on video by a surveillance camera, has been the subject of an unrelenting debate that has, at times, been ugly in this northeast Georgia town of 9,000. Up until that moment, Ayers was known to most as a man devoted to his family and faith. At the heart of this outrage, though, once again, is our increasingly demented, hysterical, all-too-literal drug war. And while Johnston was lying on the floor dying, Smith handcuffed her. Armed agents dressed in street clothes then rushed Ayerss car. Associated Press articles: Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. The Bible says an eye for an eye, one reader wrote the Toccoa Record. Its Legacy Is Disastrous. Franklin said if the person shot that day had been "a druggie, a thug, a person of disrepute, then it could have been a completely different response from the public. This would have been a grossly disproportionate way for these cops to have approached Barrett, their actual suspect, much less a guy they sought to question only about the 10 minutes he'd just spent in the car with her. The GBI was called in. Rodolfo Rudy Cardenas; San Jose, California, 2004. A cafeteria-style restaurant leads this list of 12 popular spots, SPONSORED: See the Great Smoky Mountains in style. Harrison was serving on the Mountain Judicial Circuit Narcotics Criminal Investigation and Suppression Team. Before he died, he was able to speak to his wife Copyright 2010 - 2023 CacheValleyDaily.com LLC, all rights reserved. Defense attorney Shannon Demler said his client was trying to protect himself. Police said three drug agents tried to block Ayers car after he dropped off a woman known to have been involved in illegal drug transactions. Rickman, Terrell, and the other sheriff who oversees the task force were all reelected. Ayers widow believes her husband thought he was being robbed and tried to get away. District Attorney Brian Rickman praised the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for going to "very extraordinary lengths" to insure the investigation into the shooting was fair. 3.1.2023 8:00 AM, J.D. Reproduction of material from any Salon pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. "He was an unarmed man. Wanis Thonetheva, thats the person I blame in all this. The Jonathan Ayers story was already outrageous enough. A cafeteria-style restaurant leads this list of 12 popular spots, SPONSORED: See the Great Smoky Mountains in style. The task force followed Ayers to a convenience store, where he went in to get money from an ATM. 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A national expert on police shootings was consulted. But a lot more shooting was done by the officers: a total of 39 shots were fired, several of which hit her. Those were bad. This article was published more than8 years ago, (CORRECTION: The copy below is slightly incorrect. "I think I would try to run over them or get away the best way I could.". A Stephens County grand jury decided that narcotics officers Billy Shane Harrison and Kyle Bryant were justified in shooting Jonathan Ayers, 28, pastor of Shoal Creek Baptist Church in Lavonia, Ga., in a botched drug arrest on Sept. 1, 2009. Until we're ready to dispense with the notion that gun-toting cops in ski masks going commando at a public gas station is an appropriate response to an alleged $50 drug transaction, we're going to see a lot more Jonathan Ayerses. The person I blame in this whole thing is the person selling the drugs, Terrell said. A total of 30 bullets were fired, and Navarro was shot 12 times. "And later he ran off the road. Harrison and Oxner told investigators they saw a woman, Kayla Barrett, whom they planned to arrest later that day on drug charges get into Ayers' car and they saw him give her money. By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Once the publicity hit, Harrison was suspended. And all three of them pled guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to violate her civil rights. In the process, he nicked one agent. Smith and Junnier both pled guilty to charges of voluntary manslaughter; Smith also pled guilty to perjury and admitted he planted the marijuana in Johnstons house. Jonathan Ayers, a 28-year-old Baptist minister from northern Georgia. Gwinnett Countys district attorney and a retired DA were asked to review the case. In February, I posted about a settlement in the death of Jonathan Ayers, an innocent pastor that this same drug task force killed in a drug operation in 2009. Would you like to have the day's news stories delivered right to your inbox every evening? No matter what the misconduct is, the police are always exonerated., ACLU members were critical of the way the raid was handled and asserted that a no-knock raid was totally uncalled for; Mark Silverstein, legal director for the Colorado ACLU, said, If the government officials who authorized the warrant had followed the law, Ismael Mena would be alive today.. A 34-year-old Snellville woman has been identified as the victim of a fatal shooting that occurred at her place of employment in the Centerville area on Friday. WebLast September, Ayers, a 28-year-old Baptist pastor from Lavonia, Georgia, was gunned down by a North Georgia narcotics task force in the parking lot of a gas station. According to a 1,100-page Georgia Bureau of Investigation report made public after the Dec. 15-18 grand jury probe, undercover officers were in the process of purchasing crack cocaine from a known drug user in hopes of identifying her supplier. But the task force also serves two other counties, and so is also overseen by the sheriffs of those counties. Most damning: The police officer who killed Ayers wasn't even authorized to be carrying a gun or a badge. Other members . Grand jury to review police shooting of Georgia pastor, Probe of Georgia pastor's shooting expected to take another month, Rally planned for Georgia pastor killed in botched drug sting, Georgia Baptist pastor killed in botched drug sting. The grand jury also heard from Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter and former Stephens County District Attorney Mike Crawford. Last September, Ayers, a 28-year-old Baptist pastor from Lavonia, Georgia, was gunned down by a North Georgia narcotics task force in the parking lot of a gas station. Ayers left behind a wife, Abigail, who at the time of his death was pregnant with her first child. Barley was arraigned virtually before a judge in 1st District Court, appearing by web conference from jail Monday afternoon. And not too many cases were it's obvious the shooting was bad or even unnecessary. Confusion and self-preservation is not only understandable, it ought to be predictable, even expected. Ayers likely had his windows up and his air conditioning on. The officers saw Cardenas and assumed he was David Gonzales, the man they were looking forand when they pointed their guns at Cardenas, he fled (first in a vehicle, then on foot) but was shot in the back and killed. Officers claimed Navarro had a gun and fired at them, but ballistics tests proved that all 30 shots were fired by the officers. Best Match Powered by Whitepages Premium AGE 50s Jonathan Troy Ayers Glen Burnie, MD Aliases Jonathan Troy Ayres View Full Report Addresses Woodside Ter, Glen Burnie, MD Around 6:10am on May 16, 2003, officers executed a no-knock drug raid on Spruills apartment based on bad information they had received from an informant/alleged drug dealer. On the day Ayers was killed, Harrison had yet to take a series of firearms training classes required for his certification as a police officer. Three officers, all undercover, got out of the vehicle and pointed their guns at Ayers. He asked emergency personnel if he was going to make it and told his wife at the hospital to take care of herself and that he did nothing wrong. Oxner, who was working undercover, is briefly out of the frame while Harrison can be seen lifting his right hand to his side, which he said was to lift his shirt so his holstered weapon would be visible. Shes the widow of Jonathan Ayers, a Northeast Georgia pastor fatally shot by then-Stephens County Deputy Billy Shane Harrison in September 2009. Vous avez des problmes de TNT ? Ayers, who obviously thought they were gang members or carjackers, tried to escape but was shot and killed. Based on that finding, jurors said officers involved in the incident "would be immune from criminal prosecution" under Georgia law. They also had badges around their necks.". WebOne man is dead and a second person was sent to the hospital after a shooting in Treme on Tuesday, Oct. 12. A Stephens County grand jury had cleared the agents of criminal wrongdoing shortly after the incident. If the story ended there, it would merely be enough to boil your blood. Franklin said Ayers touched a lot of people and that makes it hard for some to accept that he may have had a relationship with Barrett. 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