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R. Gerald Hall was shot and killed by a DC Police Officer on Christmas morning 2016 on the front steps of his Girlfriends house in Northeast D.C, right around noon.
But a statement has been made by the U.S. Attorney’s Office and it has determined that no charges will be filed against the officer in that shooting.
The U.S. Attorney said that Hall and his girlfriend had gotten into an argument and that he had turned on all the burners to her gas stove and lit a paper towel on fire.
After a couple of visits to the home, police say that Hall had locked his girlfriend and him in the apartment. Police looked through the door and saw him holding a knife. He was eventually shot by D.C. Police and did not survive.
Now the U.S. Attorney’s Office has said that from the circumstances determined from their investigation, that the officer was justified in the shooting.
An officer shot Hall four times; he died at a hospital later.
