While a community is still reeling after an unarmed man was shot and killed in Kingsland, Georgia, the focus has shifted to one of their own officers involved in the shooting: Zecheriah Presley.
Presley shot and killed Anthony Green, 33, after a traffic stop Wednesday night, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) said.
Radio calls obtained by First Coast News suggest Kingsland, Georgia police did not give dispatchers enough information after an officer-involved shooting.
First Coast News obtained radio transmissions between police and dispatchers that night.
“Officers aren’t giving us much information,” a dispatcher said at 10:48 p.m., “We asked them what they needed a squad for. They [unintelligible] that it was going to be a male subject for shots fired.”
Six minutes earlier, officers reported two men running from a traffic stop.
“We got one running,” one officer said. “We’ve got two running!”
Kingsland police tried to stop a car driven by Green when he and another man ran off just before 10:45 p.m., according to the GBI.
One of the men got away, but Presley caught up with Green. A brief altercation ensued, the GBI said. Presley fired multiple shots and Green died.
The next day, just feet away from where the shooting happened, friends and family put up a cross with the words, “In Memory, Tony Green, my friend.”
Most of the community is silent, and a trip to Presley's last known address to hear his side of the story came up empty-handed.
"This town is a very small town, everybody knows everybody," Pastor Mack Knight said.
Knight met with the District Attorney Jackie Johnson Friday.
"I left there feeling very hopeful," Knight said. "We will have the answers in the next few days."
Green’s family and friends said Thursday that Anthony Green had filed multiple complaints against Presley.
First Coast News filed requests to the GBI for those complaints, along with Presley’s law enforcement background, if he’s had any other complaints. A response is yet to be made.
“We’ve seen this in Ferguson, we’ve seen this in Florida, never in my wildest imagination would I ever think it would be at our front door," Knight said. "But it is, we need to deal with it, I think we just need to continue put love out front, because love conquers all and I believe we will conquer and we will get through this, so just tell the community to calm down and wait.”
Green’s family said they’re planning a vigil at 5 p.m. Saturday, but are still working on where.
On Thursday, they learned the officer was wearing a body camera.
Green’s family is asking to see the footage.
“We want justice,” said Juanetta Mack, Green’s aunt. “We want to know what happened, and why the officer had to shoot him.”
The GBI does not plan to release the footage at this time because it would jeopardize the investigation, the bureau said.
For now, Green’s family has to wait, knowing Presley has been put on administrative leave, after six minutes in Kingsland led to 48 hours of unanswered questions, and counting.