‘How Disrespectful Is That?’: Mother of Atlanta Man Shot 59 Times Demands Officer Charged In Son’s Death Be Terminated After Learning He Is Training SWAT Officers at Gun Range

The mother of a Georgia man killed by police is calling for one of the officers indicted for murder in his death be fired from the force.

Monteria Robinson told Atlanta Black Star that she lost it Tuesday after she found out Clayton County Police Officer Kristopher Hutchens was spotted at a training facility teaching SWAT officers to shoot. Hutchens was involved in the fatal shooting of her son, Jamarion Robinson, in 2016, and he is facing criminal charges for the case.

Monteria Robinson and Jamarion Robinson pose for family portrait. Jamarion was killed while US Marshals and local police were executing a warrant in an Atlanta suburb on Aug. 5, 2016. (File Photo)

Someone within the department spotted Hutchens at the facility and alerted news commentator Rashad Richey. The Clayton Police Department has since removed the officer from the training assignment, but Robinson said that is not enough. She wants him to be stripped of his badge.

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Robinson said she was mentally preparing herself for a candlelight vigil on Aug. 5, marking the anniversary of Jamarion’s death, but the new revelation reopened a wound, reviving the pain she felt when she first heard of her son’s death.

“How disrespectful is that? They still have this officer working. Are you serious?” Robinson thought when she saw Richey’s YouTube breaking the news. “It made me have like an emotional breakdown because I was like, how is this and why?”

Jamarion Robinson was shot 59 times on Aug. 5, 2016, while the US Marshals Southeast Regional Task Force served a warrant at his girlfriend’s home in the East Point neighborhood in Atlanta.

The group of about 16 police officers from various local agencies and US Marshals were looking to apprehend the 26-year-old for arson and aggravated assault of an officer. State investigators said Jamarion Robinson ignored officers’ orders to drop a gun that he had fired at them three times.

Monteria Robinson said her son had paranoid schizophrenia and was a “dedicated” college student and football player. He was experiencing a mental health crisis when he poured gasoline under his bed and near his mother’s bedroom. She reported the incident to the police to get him mental health assistance, his mother said.

Police say Jamarion Robinson pointed a gun at two officers after someone called 911 to report that he was harassing residents at a housing complex weeks after the arson attempt. He fled the scene and was then classified as a fugitive, sources in law enforcement say.

Hutchens and Eric Heinze, an assistant chief inspector for the task force, were charged with felony murder, aggravated assault, burglary, making false statements, and violation of oath by a public officer in September 2021 for their roles in Jamarion Robinson’s death.

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