AKRON, Ohio — A Summit County grand jury’s refusal to charge an Akron police officer in a fatal shooting has left the slain man’s family deeply troubled, an attorney says.

The grand jury’s decision Wednesday stung the family of Michael Donnell Jones, a 54-year-old father of eight, the family’s lawyer says. Jones was fatally shot about 1 a.m. on Aug. 17, 2024, in the parking lot of a gas station in the 2200 block of East Avenue. Officers approached him as he sat in a rented U-Haul truck that had been reported overdue.

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