'I want him locked up': Off-duty cop allegedly shot man 17 times in the back leaving friends and family outraged

An autopsy showed an off-duty Georgia constabulary serviceman changeable a rapper 17 times successful the backmost during a confrontation extracurricular a bar.

The incidental occurred soon aft 11:30 p.m. Oct. 12 extracurricular Atlanta's 5 Paces Inn. According to Atlanta police, Officer Gerald Walker was moving other work astatine the barroom erstwhile helium responded to a telephone astir a "disruptive person."

Walker spotted the man, aboriginal identified arsenic 44-year-old Linton "B-Green" Blackwell, trying to re-enter the barroom from a backmost entrance. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Blackwell started walking distant from Walker and toward a parking lot. The bull saw Blackwell participate a car "before putting an point successful the tiny of his back." Walker gave Blackwell "commands successful notation to a gun" earlier opening fire, hitting him.

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Paramedics pronounced Blackwell dormant connected scene. Cops recovered a firearm.

But Blackwell's friends and household are questioning whether the shooting was justified. Those concerns grew louder erstwhile an autopsy said Blackwell was deed 17 times successful the backmost area, according to section NBC affiliate WXIA.

"I conscionable couldn't judge it was 17 times successful the back," Blackwell's person and manager Timothy Coleman told the TV station. "There's not 1 changeable successful the front."

Coleman said helium does not judge the shooting was justified.

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"If helium wasn't pointing a weapon astatine you oregon doing anything, what does that person to bash with shooting him successful the backmost 17 times?" helium said successful an interrogation with WXIA. "That means helium wasn't facing you. He wasn't a threat."

Walker needs to beryllium charged with a crime, said Coleman.

"I privation him locked up," Coleman emphasized. "Gerald Walker needs to beryllium down bars."

GBI is the pb bureau investigating the case. Once it is done with the investigation, it volition crook implicit the findings to the Fulton County District Attorney's Office for review. Prosecutors volition find whether the serviceman was justified successful shooting Blackwell oregon should look transgression charges. The probe is ongoing.