A sheriff’s deputy in Southeast Georgia’s Camden County shot and killed a Black man from metro Atlanta who was released after being wrongfully sentenced in Florida to 16 years in prison.
The fatal shooting occurred during a traffic stop on October 16.
Authorities say 53-year-old Leonard Cure died after being tased, hit with a baton and shot by a Camden County sheriff’s deputy on Interstate 95 near Kingsland. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is looking into the shooting and says Cure became noncompliant with the deputy after being placed under arrest.
The GBI didn’t say why Cure was arrested and did not give the deputy’s name.
Cure was convicted in 2003 of armed robbery outside Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and spent 16 years in prison before being exonerated with the help of the Innocence Project of Florida. The group’s director Seth Miller says Cure, who received a cash settlement in August from the state of Florida, had recently closed on a house in Palmetto, southwest of Atlanta.
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