Mercer deputy who shot man with toy gun found not at fault
Source: Associated Press
Updated 3:45 pm, Monday, January 30, 2017
PRINCETON, W.Va. (AP) — Authorities have cleared of wrongdoing a West Virginia deputy who fatally shot a man wielding a toy pistol.
The man who was killed, 69-year-old Dennis Stanley, was drunk and using other substances at the time of the September shooting, Mercer County prosecutor George Sitler told the Charleston Gazette-Mail(http://bit.ly/2kM6d1q).
Deputy Adam Ballard shot and killed Stanley on Sept. 10 in the middle of West Virginia Route 71 in Montcalm.
A resident had called 911 and reported Stanley was waving the pistol around and acting erratically. Officers didn't see Stanley waving the pistol, Sitler said, but knew he had a pistol in his pocket.
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