By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
For more than 50 years, Frank Andrews’s family never got justice.
He was shot and killed by an Alabama sheriff’s deputy in 1964 outside of a house known for selling illegal alcohol.
Now the FBI has closed the case and decided against charging the former deputy, Quinnie Donald, The Associated Press reports.
The FBI determined no charges were warranted.
“I’m proud that they closed it, but I don’t like bringing it up,” Donald said quietly during an interview at his home earlier this month. “I regret that it happened.”
Donald said he was using an unfamiliar pistol and that it fired at the slightest touch when he said he saw Andrews reach for his pocket as if he were trying to pull a knife, the AP wrote.
The Justice Department reopened the case in 2008 but federal agents were never able to gather enough evidence.
