Georgia deputy won’t be charged for fatally shooting an exonerated man, District Attorney says

The deputy Georgia sheriff Sgt. Buck Aldridge, who fatally shot a man in a traffic stop in 2023 won’t faces charges all though it was violent.

According to District Attorney Keith Higgins, findings from the GBI investigations is not enough for them to seek criminal charges the Georgia deputy sherif who fatally shot a man in 2023.

Leonard Cure was killed in 2023, just three years after he had been exonerated for a crime he did not commit for which he had serve a 16-year sentence.

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The district attorney who examined the body camera footage believes the footage shows Staff Sgt. Buck Aldridge shock Cure with a Taser after he refused to put his hands behind him to be handcuffed. Cure then fights back and puts his hand at the deputy’s throat before Aldridge shoots him point-blank.

According to Leonard’s family, his attempt to resist arrest was due to the psychological trauma from being imprisoned in Florida for an armed robbery he did not commit.

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His lawyers have also stated that Aldridge should never have been hired after he was fired by the neighboring Kingsland Police Department in 2017.

Aldridge was on a third discipline for using excessive force. He was hired nine months later, according to personnel records.

In June 2022, there was a video of Aldridge punching a driver who is on his back as he pulls the driver from a wrecked car. No disciplinary actions were taken against the deputy in that incident, records show.

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Cure’s family filed a federal lawsuit against Aldridge and then-Sheriff Jim Proctor in U.S. District Court, seeking $16 million.

The lawsuit accused Aldridge of using excessive force and Proctor of ignoring the deputy’s history of violence. The case is still pending in U.S. District Court.