GULFPORT, Miss. >> A Mississippi grand jury has found “no criminal conduct” by a law enforcement officer who fatally shot a Black teenager last fall outside a discount store in Gulfport, state Attorney General Lynn Fitch announced Wednesday
An unidentified officer shot 15-year-old Jaheim McMillan in the head Oct. 6 after Gulfport police pulled over a car carrying the teen and other minors. McMillan, a Gulfport High School freshman, died two days later at a hospital in Mobile, Ala. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation examined the case, as it does with all shootings involving law enforcement officers. Fitch said in a statement that her office presented information from that investigation to a Harrison County grand jury earlier this month.
Because the grand jury declined to indict anyone in the shooting, Fitch said her office will take no further action in the case. McMillan’s death has prompted protests in Gulfport.
— The Associated Press