No charges for Texas officer in killing of college student

<p>DENTON, Texas &mdash; A grand jury has declined to indict a North Texas police officer in the fatal shooting of a college student who had refused to drop a frying pan and a cleaver and then advanced toward them with the pan.</p>
<p>The Denton County grand jury made the decision Thursday about the officer, whose name police have not released.</p>
<p>Darius Tarver, a 23-year-old University of North Texas student, was shot in <a href="https://apnews.com/article/d07d87f455b821cd9d6f241bb4f4d096">January 2020</a> after residents of an apartment complex in Denton, located 40 miles (64 kilometers) northwest of Dallas, called 911 and said a man was banging on doors and breaking light fixtures.</p>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9jLMNIDfFI">Body camera footage</a> showed that he was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/79f2b86667ae76f385d2bb510298590b">shocked</a> twice with a stun gun before he was fatally shot.</p>
<p>Tarver’s family and their attorney have said he was in the midst of a mental health crisis after suffering a brain injury in an earlier car crash.</p>
<p>Denton police said in a written statement that an internal investigation of the shooting to determine whether departmental policies were followed will end within 30 days. The officer remains on administrative duty.</p>