A Georgia police officer has been indicted on charges that he deliberately failed to investigate his half brother as a potential suspect in a murder case.

D’Marquivius “D.J.” King, 25, has been indicted on a felony count of Violation of Oath of Office, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced Friday. The indictment stems from the result of an investigation launched in February of last year over King’s handling of the investigation into the murder of a man named Javarreis Reid, who was shot to death in May 2021 at age 25.

King had been assigned to the case — but according to the GBI, he failed to fulfill his obligation as a police investigator.
“The investigation shows that King, while employed as an investigator with the Griffin Police Department, discovered that his brother, Damon Beck, was involved in the murder of Reid,” the GBI statement says. “King failed to properly investigate the murder.”
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