Note: this story, which first appeared in the news in February 2017, is being republished. There will be no criminal charges brought against the bystander who shot and killed a man who was assaulting a Florida sheriff’s deputy.
According to the Daily Mail, Ashad Russell has been officially cleared by the State Attorney’s Office. When Russell, 35, witnessed Edward Strother assaulting Lee County Sheriff’s Deputy First Class Dean Bardes on Interstate 75, he intervened to save the deputy.