During a press conference Aug. 7, the Macomb County Sheriff’s Office played police body camera footage from the June 3 fatal shooting.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — A Shelby Township police officer who fatally shot an armed man earlier this summer will not face criminal charges, according to the Macomb County Sheriff’s Office.

Macomb County Sheriff Anthony Wickersham and Macomb County Prosecutor Peter Lucido explained the investigation’s findings during a press conference Aug. 7 at the Sheriff’s Office in Mount Clemens.

“This type of incident is hard for everybody involved — the officers involved and the family,” Wickersham said.

Thomas Antonio Jackson, 41, of Troy, died after the June 3 incident in Shelby Township, which police said stemmed from a traffic stop on a white Dodge Caravan near Van Dy

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