A White former South Bend police officer was justified in the fatal shooting of an African-American man last summer, but he was charged March 6 with soliciting a prostitute a month before the shooting that roiled then-Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign, a special prosecutor announced.
Special prosecutor Ric Hertel was appointed to lead an investigation into former Sgt. Ryan O’Neill’s fatal June 16 shooting of 54-year-old Eric Logan, who O’Neill said had refused his orders to drop a knife while the officer was investigating a report of a person breaking into cars.
