An officer, responding to reports of a suspicious person, shot and killed an unarmed man who was running around in a metro Atlanta apartment complex naked.
The officer fired two shots when the man charged at him, said Cedric Alexander, the public safety director of DeKalb County.
But given that the man was not carrying a weapon, the police department immediately turned over the case to the Georgia Bureau of Investigations for an independent probe.
"What I have requested here [is] a result of what's going on currently across this country as it relates to police shootings," Alexander told reporters.
The officer was white; the deceased man was African-American, Alexander said.
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