A white former South Bend police officer whose fatal shooting of a Black man last year roiled then-Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign has agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge stemming from an alleged on-duty sexual encounter he had a month before that shooting.
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The South Bend Tribune reports that a plea agreement calls for 44-year-old Ryan O’Neill to plead guilty to a ghost employment count, while prosecutors would drop two other charges.
A special prosecutor filed the charges against O’Neill in March after finding that he was justified in the June 2019 shooting of 54-year-old Eric Logan.