Sergeant Garrett Hardin was found not guilty weeks after the release of the bodycam showing him shooting shoplifting suspect Roderick Brooks

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Sergeant Garrett Hardin was found not guilty weeks after being charged with murder in connection with the 2022 death of a robbery suspect.

The verdict came less than two weeks after the 20-year veteran of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office was charged after a bodycam caught him shooting a shoplifting suspect in the neck.

A grand jury has returned an indictment against Sgt. Garrett Hardin, who was taken off the street and has since been put on desk duty July 8, 2022incident that left 47-year-old Roderick Brooks dead.

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Brooks’ family has since called for Hardin’s resignation.

The entire incident happened during a 911 call that summer day last year, when a Dollar General employee at the store near FM-1960 reported that someone had robbed the business and assaulted her.

Authorities identified Brooks as the suspect. Hardin responded and saw Brooks near a gas station parking lot. Body camera footage shows Hardin chasing him.

“Stop, dude. I’m going to taser you! Stop,” Hardin can be heard in the footage. “Get on the ground! Get on the ground right now!”

Hardin then tackles Brooks to the ground and sits on top of him, with a Taser in view and on the ground. Brooks then grabs it.

‘I’m going to shoot you. Put that down. I’ll shoot you!’ Hardin assignments.

At one point, Brooks is seen removing his hand from the Taser, but then it disappears from view.

Hardin fires a single shot into his neck, killing Brooks.

“The video clearly shows that this man shot Roderick Brooks in the back of the head for no reason,” said Justin Moore, Brooks’ family attorney. “I think when the jury saw this video, it was hard for them to walk away and not indict this man.”

Hardin’s attorney, Justin Keiter, said his client had no other choice because the suspect had his Taser with him.

A previous report from Eyewitness News also revealed that Hardin was under investigation for using his stun gun on someone else on a bridge a week before Brooks died.

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