The family of a man, Bobby Lee Sutton, who was fatally shot by a Fulton County sheriff deputy after allegedly breaking into his home now “wants answers.”
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said the deputy was returning home from work late Saturday night when he got a Ring camera alert showing a man breaking into his home on Springdale Drive.
When the deputy arrived home, he then saw the man from the video leaving the home with tools, according to the GBI.
The GBI explained that then the deputy, who was still in uniform, followed the man as he walked away into the woods and during a confrontation, the deputy shot and killed him.
The Sutton family, however, is not satisfied with the GBI’s explanation and they want to know more about that confrontation as well as what led up to the gunfire.
In an interview with 11Alive, the man’s niece, Atlanta actress Motanique “Monei” Sutton, asked, “Nobody’s perfect, we know that. But I need to know, was his shooting justified for my uncle?”
“You get out of your car and you follow him in a wooded area and you shoot him down like he’s nobody, like he has no family or nothing. That’s not fair. That’s not justice,” according to “Monei.”
Sutton’s body was released to the family Tuesday afternoon and they said the Medical Examiner’s office told them he was shot three times in the chest.
The family set up a GoFundMe to help pay for funeral arrangements, although, at the time of publication, it has only raised $5.
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