US EditionPolice officer who shot dead Chris Kaba charged with murder
- The Crown Prosecution Service has announced that a Metropolitan Police officer will face a murder charge for shooting and killing Chris Kaba, who died the day after being hit by a gunshot from the officer.
- The officer fired the shot through the windshield of his marked vehicle after a collision between Kaba's car and another police car. Kaba had been followed by an unmarked police car without lights or sirens. The car Kaba was driving had been linked to a firearms incident the day prior.
- The family of Chris Kaba welcomed the murder charge against the officer, expressing their desire for justice.
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Police officer appears in court charged with Chris Kaba’s murder
Mr Kaba died of a single gunshot wound to the head in September last year A Metropolitan Police officer has appeared in court charged with the murder of Chris Kaba. The officer, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was remanded in custody at Westminster Magistrates’ Court ahead of a further appearance at the Old Bailey on Thursday afternoon. Mr Kaba, 24, died of a single gunshot wound in Streatham Hill on September 5, 2022. He was driving his…
UK police officer charged with murder over 2022 fatal shooting of Black man
UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) authorized on Wednesday murder charge against an acting police officer over the fatal shooting of Chris Kaba, a Black man, on September 6, 2022. CPS charged the officer with murder after he shot and killed Kaba with a single bullet in south London. The officer’s name will remain anonymous for now, as CPS cited “legal reasons.” CPS charged the officer after the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) prov…
Met Police officer charged with Chris Kaba murder
Chris Kaba died just over a year ago when he was shot through the windscreen of his car in South London. Now the police officer who fatally shot him has been charged with murder, following a review by the Crown Prosecution Service. Ria Chatterjee has spoken to his parents, who say they cannot grieve as they await answers.
London police officer charged with murder in fatal shooting of unarmed black man
An officer with London's Metropolitan Police force who fatally shot an unarmed Black man has been charged with murder, prosecutors said Wednesday. Chris Kaba, 24, was killed in south London on Sept. 5 last year, after police pursued his car and tried to stop it. His vehicle was hemmed in by two police cars in a narrow residential street in the Streatham Hill neighborhood. Police fired one round at Kaba, who was shot through the windscreen of the…
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