A former Georgia police officer who fatally shot an unarmed, naked man was found not guilty of murder on Monday
1 / 5Naked Man ShotRobert"Chip" Olsen waits for DeKalb County Superior Court Judge LaTisha Dear Jackson to decide on when his sentencing will be given at the DeKalb County Courthouse in Decatur, Ga., Monday, Oct. 14, 2019. Olsen, a former Georgia police officer who fatally shot an unarmed, naked man, was found not guilty of murder on Monday, but was convicted of aggravated assault and other charges that could potentially send him to prison for more than 30 years. DECATUR, Ga.
Olsen, now 57, was a DeKalb County police officer in March 2015 when he responded to a call of a naked man behaving erratically outside an Atlanta-area apartment complex. Shortly after arriving, he fatally shot 26-year-old Anthony Hill, an Air Force veteran who had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. A grand jury indicted Olsen nearly a year after the shooting. Olsen is white and Hill was black.
DeKalb County District Attorney Sherry Boston, whose office prosecuted the case, said she appreciated the time the jurors spent and respected their verdict. By the time they reached a verdict, jurors were pretty evenly split — largely along racial lines — between those who wanted to convict Olsen of murder and those who didn't, with most white jurors wanting to acquit, he said.
In the Olsen case , the apartment complex property manager testified that she saw Hill, a resident, wearing shorts but no shoes or shirt and behaving strangely on March 9, 2015. After maintenance workers got him to go to his apartment, he reemerged a short time later without any clothes.
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