U. of So. Ala. Officer Won’t Face Charges in Student Shooting Death

MOBILE, Ala.—On Friday a grand jury determined that a campus police officer who fatally shot a University of South Alabama (USA) student will not be charged.

Video surveillance proved the shooting was justified, reports Fox News.

In October, Officer Trevis Austin, a four-year USA employee shot 18-year-old Gil Collar, who was on LSD at the time of the shooting. The jury claimed that Collar’s ingestion of LSD may have caused him to behave strangly.

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