{"id":1044,"date":"2022-02-23T16:04:43","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T16:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/memphis\/memphians-witness-deadly-shooting-of-rayshard-brooks-by-atlanta-police-officer\/"},"modified":"2022-11-16T21:18:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T21:18:43","slug":"memphians-witness-deadly-shooting-of-rayshard-brooks-by-atlanta-police-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/memphis\/memphians-witness-deadly-shooting-of-rayshard-brooks-by-atlanta-police-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphians Witness Shooting of Rayshard Brooks by ATL Police Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An Atlanta police officer is charged with murder after the deadly shooting of a black man. Three witnesses to the entire ordeal were\u00a0visitors from Memphis.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThey were scared to death. They witnessed an execution in their view point and saw someone die right in front of them,\u201d said Shean Williams, attorney<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Shean William, seen at a news conference in Atlanta, is representing three Memphians who witnessed the\u00a0shooting of Rayshard Brooks<\/a>\u00a0Friday night by Atlanta Police officer Garrett Rolfe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Rolfe was\u00a0charged with the murder of Brooks\u00a0<\/a>on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Williams says one of the bullets hit the side of the white SUV the Memphians were in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThey all witnessed the horrific shooting and death of Rayshard Brooks and if things turned out a different way, they could have lost their own lives,\u201d said Williams.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Brooks was at a Wendy\u2019s restaurant, asleep in his car near the drive-through, when police were called.<\/p>\n

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The killing of Brooks happened about 10 feet from the Memphians\u2019 SUV.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Williams says Memphis rappers Melvin Evans and Michael Perkins were in Atlanta to record with rapper Pastor Troy.<\/p>\n

For more information, please check out the full article from\u00a0WMC Action News 5.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Atlanta police officer is charged with murder after the deadly shooting of a black man. Three witnesses to the entire ordeal were\u00a0visitors from Memphis. \u201cThey were scared to death. They witnessed an execution in their view point and saw someone die right in front of them,\u201d said Shean Williams, attorney. Shean William, seen at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":1045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Memphians Witness Shooting of Rayshard Brooks by ATL Police Officer","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/memphis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/memphis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/memphis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/memphis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/memphis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/memphis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1716,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/memphis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/memphis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/memphis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/memphis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/memphis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}