The family of Michael Jones broke their silence eleven days after the 54-year-old man was shot and killed by an Akron police officer during an altercation inside a U-Haul truck.
Tiara Chavis, the eldest of eight children, spoke about the pain of her family’s sudden loss and raised questions about the deadly incident that happened on Aug. 17 outside of the Duke and Duchess gas station on East Avenue in Akron.
“It’s just hard to know that he’s gone,” Chavis said. “It’s just a feeling that you don’t want nobody else to ever have to feel.”…