High Point chief defends officers in man’s death

HIGH POINT — The police chief in High Point is defending his officers in the shooting death of a robbery suspect earlier this week.

Police Chief Jim Fealy told the group High Point Community Against Violence on Wednesday he is confident the officers who shot 21-year-old Jeremy Antonio Mills on Monday acted properly.

The officers have been suspended while the State Bureau of Investigation looks into the shooting, which is standard procedure. The SBI identified them as K.H. Kish and C.C. Wolf.

Police say Mills was one of three men who robbed a home and that Mills didn’t respond to commands and threatened officers with a handgun. Fealy said it was untrue that Mills was unarmed or that he was shot in the back.

Another suspect has been arrested and officers are looking for a third man in the robbery.

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