No indictment for Akron officers involved in shooting death of man last August

A Summit County grand jury declined to indict two Akron Police officers who were involved in the shooting death of a 54-year-old man in August 2024.

On Wednesday, the Ohio Attorney General‘s Office presented the case to the grand jury, which cleared the officer who allegedly shot and killed Michael Jones last year and issued a no-bill, according to the attorney general.

A statement from the Akron Fraternal Order of Police said evidence in the case supports that the officer who was cleared acted “lawfully and appropriately in a life-threatening situation.”…

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