The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has confirmed a $2.4 million judgment against police for the shooting death of an unarmed pastor.
The Rev. Jonathan Ayers died in 2009 after being shot by an undercover police officer in the parking lot of a gas station in the North Georgia mountain town of Toccoa. His widow, Abigail Ayers—who was pregnant with the couple’s first child at the time—sued the shooter, Officer Billy Harrison, as well as other members of a now disbanded drug task force involved.
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