A Black man who had been exonerated after serving 16 years for an armed robbery conviction was fatally shot by a Georgia sheriff's deputy during a traffic stop as he was driving to visit his mother in Florida.
The officer pulled over Leonard Allan Cure, 53, on Monday morning along Interstate 95 in Camden County near the Florida border. An altercation ensued, and the deputy killed Cure, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation .
In Monday's incident, the GBI said the deputy had told Cure that he was under arrest but Cure failed to comply with the officer's requests and assaulted him. Before shooting, the deputy used a Taser and a baton in an effort to subdue Cure, the agency said. Paramedics treated Cure but he later died. In 2020, an independent review panel ruled that the case against Cure gave "rise to a reasonable doubt as to his culpability and that he is most likely innocent," according to court records.
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