The announcement confirmed officially what The Washington Post reported Tuesday, although Amundson and the Justice Department revealed far more detail about how investigators came to the conclusion they did. He said he had asked the Justice Department to forward its investigative materials to Louisiana State Police and assigned a prosecutor with the Louisiana Department of Justice to the case. Lake yelled for him to “get on the ground,” and as he continued to move, Salamoni fired three more shots into his back, the Justice Department said. The Justice Department said the officers recovered a loaded, .38-caliber revolver from his pocket, though that detail itself was not especially revelatory. It was not in dispute that Sterling had a gun, but whether he reached for it, as the officers claimed.

Source: Washington Post May 03, 2017 13:14 UTC