The Forsyth County district attorney will not pursue criminal action against a deputy who shot and killed a man in March.
District Attorney Penny Penn notified the sheriff's office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation that she would not take any action against William O'Haire, the deputy who shot and killed 52-year-old Kenny Roger Drake, according to the Forsyth County News.
“If it appeared from the results of the investigation that there was a basis for criminal charges, I would have pursued it like any other criminal case,” Penn told the paper. “But there didn’t appear to be that basis.
“I reviewed the file and am not going to take any action on it.”
On March 17, deputies responded to a routine 911 call from a home in the 7900 block of Nicholson Road in northwest Forsyth just after midnight, Forsyth sheriff’s spokesman Doug Rainwater said at the time.
“A man at the residence threatened deputies with a firearm and was shot,” he said. “He died at the scene.”
The GBI investigated the shooting, which is protocol in officer-involved shootings.
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