HOPE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — The Barry County prosecutor has decided that a deputy was justified when he shot and killed a man near Delton last year, saying Jeremiah Johnson had threatened his wife with a gun and was struggling over the weapon with a deputy when it happened.
Barry County Prosecutor Julie Nakfoor Pratt’s decision, released Tuesday after meeting with Johnson’s family, means no criminal charges will be filed in the case.
“It is my opinion that … the deputy honestly and reasonably believed that the use of deadly force was necessary to prevent the imminent death or imminent great bodily harm to his fellow officer, Johnson’s wife … and also himself,” Pratt wrote in a release. “This was a justifiable homicide.”…