READING, MASS. (WHDH) - A Reading officer on trial for a fatal shooting in 2018, the first on-duty in Massachusetts in almost 3 decades, was found not guilty according to officials Monday.
Officer Erik Drauschke was charged with manslaughter for a confrontation from Feb. 3, 2018, where he was called to a gas station for a report that a 43-year-old Alan Greenough had assaulted two people. Draushke was accused of drawing his service-issued firearm and fatally shooting Greenough.
“The decision to use deadly force against a human being is the most difficult moment in the life of any police officer, I know that Officer Drauschke will carry the burden of having made that choice,” Chief David Clark said in a statement Monday afternoon, following the not-guilty verdict.”
Clark also offered condolences from the Reading Police Department to the family of Alan Greenough.
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