By Susie C. Spear
News & Record, Greensboro, N.C.
GREENSBORO, N.C. — A Guilford County court docket dismissed manslaughter costs in opposition to former Greensboro police officer Matthew Edward Hamilton on Friday, in accordance with court docket paperwork.
Hamilton had been on trial since Jan. 12 for the November 2021 taking pictures loss of life of Joseph Lopez of Greensboro.
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Superior Court Judge David Hall presided over the case that had been anticipated to increase via this week earlier than winter climate closed the court docket early this week.
Comment from the Guilford County District Attorney’s Office was not instantly accessible. A name to Hamilton’s lawyer Michael Grace Sr. of Winston-Salem was not instantly returned.
Hamilton was a part of a gaggle of officers who looked for Lopez at a house on Cloverdale Drive in Greensboro in 2021. Lopez was needed for a number of costs of possession of a firearm by a felon and a cost of assault inflicting critical harm.
When Lopez refused Hamilton’s command to return out of a darkish shed, Hamilton launched a Ok-9 into the shed after which fired a shot that killed Lopez.
Hamilton stated in 2021 simply after the incident, that he had seen one thing in Lopez’s hand. However, investigators decided Lopez was unarmed.
The trial got here practically 4 years after Hamilton was indicted on the manslaughter cost and fired from the division in June 2022.
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