The three Sharon Hill officers face charges of manslaughter and reckless endangerment after the summer incident that left 8-year-old Fanta Bility dead and three other people wounded.
The Philadelphia suburb's Borough Council voted 6 to 1 Thursday night in favor of firing the officers.Officers Brian Devaney, Sean Dolan and Devon Smith are each facing 12 counts of manslaughter and reckless endangerment.That's when, witnesses told police, 18-year-old Hasein Strand and 16-year-old Angelo"AJ" Ford got into a verbal fight before firing at each other.
"These officers made a split-second decision to return fire. We trust them to get that decision right and they got it horribly wrong," Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said earlier this week."It was reckless what they did. It was extremely reckless," one man said."What you are doing to our three police officers is wrong. Do I think they need to be retrained? Absolutely. Do I think they need to be prosecuted like criminals? No," a woman said.
Council President Tanya Allen released a statement following the vote saying,"Sharon Hill's heart is still broken. The entire Borough grieves for Fanta Bility and we again convey our deepest sympathies to her family and everyone affected by the shooting.
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