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Police committee to review dog shooting

Posted by Rob Holbert | Mar 26, 2014 | News | 4 |

A group of fellow Mobile police officers will look over the details of Officer Kevin Kelly’s shooting of a midtown resident’s dog to complete an internal investigation into the incident.

In a prepared statement, police spokeswoman Ashley Rains said Internal Affairs has completed its investigation and will turn its findings over to a Shooting Review Committee, which will study the report and the policies of the department before making a recommendation to Chief James Barber.

Barber said the committee would be made up of a division commander, training commander, policy and procedure commander and a peer of roughly the same rank as Kelly.

The committee will be tasked with giving a recommendation to Barber on how to move forward. Barber said the recommendation could include a change in procedure, a change in training, or disciplinary action.

The committee is expected to complete its part of the investigation next week, according to the statement. Barber said the committee would be standard operating procedure moving forward for officer-involved shootings.

While in pursuit of five suspects near Murphy High School on March 14, Kelly entered Mark Yeager’s backyard and fired two shots. The shots killed one of Yeager’s dogs and injured another. During a previous interview, Barber said an initial investigation showed the dogs were on the porch and charged at Kelly.

Kelly was involved in another officer-involved shooting in February. His shooting of Shawn E. Taylor was deemed acceptable, after an internal investigation.

 

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Rob Holbert

Rob Holbert

Rob Holbert is co-publisher and managing editor of Lagniappe, Mobile’s independent newspaper. Rob helped found the newspaper after a career that started as a police reporter and columnist at the Mississippi Press in Pascagoula. He followed that with a stint as a deputy press secretary for then-U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott in Washington, D.C. After leaving Capitol Hill, Rob worked ghost-writing opinion articles for publication in some of the nation’s largest newspapers. From 1999 through Aug. 2010 he was the faculty adviser for the University of South Alabama student newspaper, The Vanguard, and in 2002 started Lagniappe with his business partner Ashley Trice. The paper now prints 30,000 copies every week and is distributed at more than 1,300 locations around Mobile and Baldwin Counties. According to Scarborough Research, Lagniappe now has more than 80,000 readers each week, with close to a quarter of that coming online. The paper began publishing weekly at the beginning of April 2014.

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