Family of off-duty CNN guard seeks answers after shooting
CNN
By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN
Updated 6:32 AM ET, Mon December 28, 2015
“Officials have said a deputy in Douglas County, Georgia, opened fire after a gun was pointed at him.
But a lawyer representing Bobby Daniels' family says the 48-year-old off-duty security guard never pointed a gun at officers and was struggling to stop his son from getting a hold of the weapon when a deputy shot him dead last Monday.”
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“Authorities and family members have given different accounts about what happened next.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said deputies first tried to get Bobby Daniels and his son, Bias, to drop the weapon, shouting verbal commands.
"As the fight continued between Bias and Bobby, the handgun was pointed at the deputies, at which point one of the (deputies) fired, striking and killing Bobby," the statement said.
Douglas County Sheriff Phil Miller told CNN affiliate WSB that Daniels could have been trying to do the right thing.
"I think that he could have been trying to help the situation instead of hurting it, but when he pointed a gun at the officer, he was shot," Miller said.”
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“Stewart told reporters that claim isn't true -- and isn't fair.
"I appreciate that the sheriff's department acknowledges that Bobby Daniels was trying to help them, but in the same statement, they're going to say 'but he pointed a gun at them'? That contradiction speaks volumes. It speaks volumes to the contradiction of this entire situation by saying that this is Bobby Daniels' fault in any way," he said.”
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“That's just not true. From what we understand, he had a bad reaction to some chemical, and that's what made him start hallucinating and have the weapon," Stewart said. "And his father was just trying to talk him down and control the situation, like any good dad would do."
We still don't know very much yet about this case.