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Q: Dash cam video of Zachary Hammond shooting 
  
 On July 26, 2015, 19-year-old Zachary Hammond, of Seneca, was shot and killed by Lt. Mark Tiller of the Seneca Police Department. SLED closed its investigation of the shooting and recommended that no charges should be filed against Tiller. ||||| Lieutenant Mark Tiller, who shot and killed the 19-year-old in South Carolina in July 2015, fired from Seneca police force for unspecified reason 
  
 A police officer who was not charged in the shooting death of an unarmed South Carolina teenager is being fired from the force more than a year after the incident. 
  
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 The family of Zachary Hammond, who was 19 when he was shot and killed by Lieutenant Mark Tiller in July 2015, said they had “never lost hope” of such an outcome. 
  
 Seneca police chief John Covington said in a short statement that Tiller was being terminated and would stay on the payroll until Friday. He refused to give a reason, calling it a personnel matter. 
  
 A state prosecutor did not press charges against Tiller for the killing of Hammond, saying while Tiller might have made a bad decision in heading toward Hammond’s moving car, the officer had less than three seconds to react and broke no law. 
  
 Hammond was killed while driving away from a drug sting operation. A dashboard recording showed that the teen was shot from the side as he passed the officer. 
  
 The FBI and US justice department are still investigating the case. 
  
 Hammond’s family, who in March reached a $2.15m settlement with the city of Seneca, released a statement saying they were glad Tiller would no longer be a police officer. 
  
  
  
 “After Zachary’s death, the Hammonds placed their faith in the justice system and were hoping that Lieutenant Tiller was going to have to answer for his actions and the decisions he made which resulted in such a senseless death,” the statement said. 
  
 “With each passing day the Hammonds never lost hope that Lieutenant Tiller would in the future never again have the highest honor of serving the public as a police officer, wear the uniform and carry a weapon. It appears that today is such a day.” ||||| Video 
  
 A South Carolina police lieutenant who fatally shot a 19-year-old man during an attempted drug arrest in a Hardee’s parking lot last year has been fired from his job, the police chief said. The officer contended that he was acting in self-defense when the suspect drove a car toward him. 
  
 John Covington, the chief of the police in Seneca, S.C., said in an emailed statement on Monday that Lt. Mark Tiller had been terminated from his position on the force. 
  
 In the statement, which was sent over the weekend to local media including The State newspaper, Chief Covington gave no reason for the termination and declined to answer further questions on what he called a personnel matter. 
  
 The lieutenant’s final day on the payroll will be Sept. 9, he said. 
  
 Lt. Tiller had been on paid administrative leave since the shooting, which took place on July 26, 2015, during a sting operation targeting a 19-year-old man, Zachary Hammond, and a female companion. Police officers suspected a drug deal, and Lt. Tiller used his patrol car to block Mr. Hammond’s vehicle when he pulled into a Hardee’s parking lot. 
  
 According to an Oconee County coroner’s report, Lt. Tiller then “felt threatened” as Mr. Hammond drove his car toward him. The officer fired two shots through the open window on the driver’s side, striking Mr. Hammond once in the shoulder and once fatally in the chest, the report said. 
  
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 Prosecutors declined to press charges against Lt. Tiller, saying a dashboard video of the shooting supported his contention that he believed he was going to be run over. 
  
 The officer, who had not faced any disciplinary action since he started working with the Seneca police in 2010, was put on leave while under investigation by the Justice Department for possible civil rights violations. 
  
 The video elevated the shooting in Seneca, a town of about 8,000 people in the northwest part of the state, into the national debate about police conduct that spread after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., in August 2014. Unlike that case, in which a white policeman killed an unarmed black man, both the officer and Mr. Hammond were white. 
  
 Even so, supporters said the case was yet another example of questionable police behavior that had shaken communities around the country. 
  
 The Seneca case also rejuvenated calls for police to wear body cameras, and the department was criticized for letting the situation evolve from an effort to trap his companion into selling a small amount of marijuana. 
  
 A lawyer for Lt. Tiller, John M. Mussetto, said the department had been “very tight lipped” about the reasons for his client’s termination from the force and said it made “no sense” after the state determined there was no basis to press criminal charges. 
  
 “After many years of service in law enforcement, it is unfortunate that Lt. Tiller was given such short notice,” he said. “Lt. Tiller looks forward the day when he can share his account of the unfortunate July 2015 incident.” 
  
 Eric S. Bland, a lawyer for the Hammond family, had urged the news media to treat the killing of Mr. Hammond as they had shootings of unarmed black men. 
  
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 On Saturday, after the termnation was first announced, Mr. Bland said Chief Covington’s decision was “admirable.” 
  
 “As one would suspect, the last year has been extremely difficult for the Hammond Family,” he said in an email. 
  
 “One of the nagging questions for the Hammond Family was how could Lt. Tiller remain employed after Chief Covington and the City Administration saw the video of Zachary’s killing,” he said. “Today, that question was answered.” 
  
 In March this year, the Hammond family agreed to a $2.15 million settlement to drop their lawsuit against the police. ||||| Rating is available when the video has been rented. 
  
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The South Carolina police officer who shot and killed Zachary Hammond has been fired more than a year after the unarmed 19-year-old's death. Seneca Police Chief John Covington declined to comment further on the firing of Mark Tiller, a six-year veteran of the force who had been on paid leave since the July 26, 2015, shooting during a drug sting in a Hardee's parking lot, the State reports. In a version of events Hammond family lawyer Eric Bland called "ridiculous," police said Tiller shot Hammond because he "felt threatened" and believed the teen was trying to run him over. Dashcam video, however, revealed that Tiller shot Hammond through a side window as he tried to drive away. Earlier this year, the teen's family reached a $2.15 million settlement with the city over the incident, which is still being investigated by the FBI and the Justice Department, the Guardian reports. "One of the nagging questions for the Hammond Family was how could Lt. Tiller remain employed after Chief Covington and the City Administration saw the video of Zachary's killing," Bland said in a statement, per the New York Times. "Today, that question was answered." (A witness claimed to have seen cops high-five Hammond's corpse.)