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We reported earlier about the shooting of a suspect in a PlayStation 3 theft case.
According to an official report, the officers could see into the residence through three glass panes on the front door. When the officers knocked, Peyton Strickland, the suspect, approached the door, looked through the window, and walked away. Strickland’s roommate, Michael Rhoton, stated that the suspect may have been holding a PS3 controller that appeared like a gun to the officers.
The officers ordered the men to open the door and a sheriff’s deputy began using a battering ram to enter the residence. Officer Christopher Long, a deputy since 1996, confused the sound of the battering ram striking the door with gunfire and began to fire shots. Strickland was shot in the shoulder and another shot ricocheted off another object and into his skull. This was the fatal shot.
Long was dismissed from his job on December 8. A grand jury in