Category: Civil Rights
U.S. Attorney John Horn met with Freda Waiters, T.J. Ward, and Marcus Coleman for more than an hour at Atlanta's Richard B. Russell Federal Building, a week after a second Fulton County grand jury declined to indict former Union City police officer Luther Lewis for the murder of unarmed black youth Ariston Waiters in 2011. Horn vowed to open an investigation into the controversial fatal shooting.
It has been more than three years since Freda Waiters' only child, Ariston, was slain on the street of Atlanta's Union City. Today, she is one step closer to finding out why. When the media began making specific inquiries over the past week, and followed up with interviews of numerous officers, past and present, named from T.J. Ward's investigation, the Fulton DA quickly re-opened the case.
Nineteen-year-old black youth Ariston Waiters was shot twice through his spine at point-blank range by former Union City Police Officer Luther Lewis. Waiters was unarmed, yet a Special Grand Jury declined to indict. New evidence uncovered by renown Private Investigator T.J. Ward confirms that Waiters' death could not be justified.