A two-month-long grand jury investigation led to the filing of criminal charges against three Philadelphia-area officers who fired their weapons at a car amid crowds of people:
Three Sharon Hill police officers have been charged with manslaughter and reckless endangerment after firing their weapons into a crowd of people exiting a high school football game outside of Philadelphia, killing Bility and injuring three people.
in Bility's death, even after prosecutors determined it was not their bullets that had killed the young girl or injured any of the four other shooting victims.it as"a ruse to distract from the terrible decisions police officers made that day – and to allow them to evade scrutiny." The violent altercation began with a heated verbal exchange between Ford and Strand following a football game at Academy Park High School. According to investigators, the argument resulted in shots fired, which drew the three officers in the direction of the gunfire. All three discharged their weapons more than two dozen times collectively at a passing car as Bility and her family as well as crowds of others leaving the game were in the same vicinity.
"We have now concluded beyond a reasonable doubt that it was, in fact, shots from the officers that struck and killed Fanta Bility and injured three others," the district attorney's office said in a"They picked the wrong target, they shot in the wrong direction at it, and they shot as that target was moving through a crowd of people. And that is why Fanta Bility is dead," Stollsteimer said on Tuesday.
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