The officer shot the man in the face with a shotgun, even though the victim never pointed a gun at police.
Police officer William Ben Darby has been convicted for the 2018 murder of a man in Huntsville, Alabama, who was suffering a mental health emergency, after a jury agreed Darby unnecessarily escalated the situation when he took a shotgun from his patrol car and shot the man in the face, even though the victim never pointed his gun at police officers. Huntsville’s mayor and police chief both defended Darby’s actions, with Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle (R) saying after the verdict Friday that Darby „was doing what he was trained to do in the line of duty.
