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Officers in Kloepfer shooting won’t face charges
Published: 2024-02-23 16:46:41A special prosecutor tasked with examining the investigation into a 2022 police shooting that severely injured Jason Harley Kloepfer at his home in Cherokee County has concluded that no criminal charges are warranted against any of the officers involved....
Read MoreTrial term set in police shooting lawsuit
Published: 2024-02-14 14:41:18A man who was severely injured in a 2022 police shooting at his home in Cherokee County won’t see a resolution to his civil suit until August 2025 at the earliest, according to a recent filing in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Nort...
Read More2023 A Look Back: Homer Simpson Award
Published: 2023-12-27 16:05:23We can’t say for certain whether Cherokee County Sheriff Dustin Smith backed into a literal bush as the events of Dec. 13, 2022, unfolded, but at this point it’s pretty clear that in the aftermath he did his best metaphorical impression of the infamo...
Read MoreCherokee County Sheriff’s Office answers police shooting lawsuit
Published: 2023-12-20 15:54:27In a 65-page answer to an extensive lawsuit filed in response to the December 2022 police shooting of Jason Harley Kloepfer in Cherokee County, the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office emphasized that it was officers with the Cherokee Indian Police Departm...
Read MoreJudge rules on motion to dismiss claims in police shooting suit
Published: 2023-12-13 16:17:35The court has made its decision in the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office’s request to dismiss many of the complaints in a lawsuit stemming from the 2022 shooting of Jason Harley Kloepfer at his home near Murphy. . “The court denied a few things I th...
Read MoreSBI report on police shooting heads to special prosecutor
Published: 2023-11-08 15:35:02Nearly 11 months after a Cherokee County man was shot by police officers in the doorway of his own home, a State Bureau of Investigation probe into the shooting is complete. . The case is now in the hands of Special Prosecutor Lance Sigmon, who is review...
Read MorePolice shooting case could test limits of sovereign immunity
Published: 2023-11-01 14:52:56As police shooting victim Jason Harley Kloepfer’s sprawling federal lawsuit makes its way through court, where he’s seeking millions of dollars in damages, some attorneys are speculating that it has the potential to spur a first-of-its-kind ruling on...
Read MorePolice shooting defendants reply to lawsuit
Published: 2023-09-06 17:07:12Tribal officers in Cherokee County shooting say they thought victim was armed . The police officers accused of shooting an unarmed Cherokee County man as he stood in the doorway of his home during the early morning hours of Dec. 13, 2022, hands above his...
Read MoreAbove the law: Sheriffs largely silent on sovereign group’s meeting
Published: 2023-09-05 19:55:06A controversial law enforcement association that holds a fringe interpretation of the Constitution and has ties to white nationalism, the sovereign citizen movement, election denial and COVID-19 conspiracy theories will host a meeting in Cherokee County ...
Read MorePolice shooting victim alleges attempted murder, seeks millions in damages
Published: 2023-06-20 20:31:08In an explosive federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court of Western North Carolina, the victim of a December 2022 police shooting in Cherokee County seeks millions of dollars in damages while laying out the sequence of alleged violations ...
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