Crime & Justice

Family Calls on Police to Release Video in Fatal Shooting of Savannah Prom King

NOTHING TO HIDE?

Georgia police say Ricky Boyd was waving a BB gun when they shot him dead in front of his grandmother. The family says he had his hands up—and they want body-cam footage released.

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Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast

Georgia police say Ricky Boyd was wielding a BB gun when officers shot and killed him at his grandmother’s house one January morning.

But Boyd’s family claims he was unarmed—and that authorities showed them body-camera footage that proves Boyd’s hands were raised.

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