The Mecklenburg County District Attorney’s Office says they will not be seeking charges against the U.S. Marshal who fatally shot a man during an attempted arrest at a Charlotte gas station in March 2021.
In a letter sent to Charlotte-Mecklenburg police chief Johnny Jennings on Tuesday, District Attorney Spencer B. Merriweather III said his office would decline to bring charges against Ofc. Eric Tillman as part of their investigation into the death of Frankie Jennings (no apparent relation to Chief Jennings). Tillman was a member of the US Marshals’ Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force (CRFTF) who, on March 23, 2021 was a member of the force that went to a gas station along The Plaza in Charlotte to arrest Frankie Jennings. Jennings was wanted on several active warrants, including assault with a deadly weapon against a law enforcement officer, discharging a firearm, within city limits, and two counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
