USA Today
by Jessica Flores
September 20, 2020
Excerpt:
A white bar owner charged with fatally shooting an unarmed Black man in May during protests in Omaha, Nebraska died by suicide in Oregon on Sunday, according to Gardner’s attorneys.
“The family of Jake Gardner has asked Tom Monaghan and myself to share the news of his death today, at his own hand,” attorney Stu Dornan said at a press conference Sunday.
The Hillsboro Police Department in Oregon is conducting an investigation into a cause of death after finding Gardner’s body outside a medical clinic, according to a news release.
Dornan said Gardner, 38, was scheduled to return to Omaha on Sunday night to face charges in the death of 22-year-old James Scurlock on May 30. A grand jury charged Gardner on Tuesday with manslaughter, attempted assault, making terroristic threats and using a gun to commit a felony.
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