COLUMBUS (AP) – A prosecutor says three police officers have been cleared in the shooting of a suspected gang ringleader on the run for more than a year.
Jermonte Fletcher was killed in January on the South Side during a shoot-out with members of a fugitive task force trying to arrest him.
Fletcher, 33, had been a fugitive for more than a year following his indictment in December 2013 on multiple charges of drug dealing and illegal weapons possession as head of the Short North Posse.
Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien says a grand jury reviewing the officers’ actions declined to file charges.
Authorities say one Columbus police officer and two Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers opened fire after Fletcher shot at them with a submachine gun.