Drugs in body of driver killed by Arkansas officer

An Arkansas police department has released an investigative file that shows methamphetamines, PCP, marijuana and cocaine were found in the body of a man fatally shot by a police officer.

The 546-page report pertains to the Feb. 22 shooting of Bradley Blackshire. Little Rock Officer Charles Starks was investigating a stolen vehicle that Blackshire was driving when he fatally shot the 30-year-old, firing at least 15 times into the windshield while the car was in motion.

The Little Rock Democrat-Gazette reports that the heavily redacted file indicates that Blackshire was behaving in a paranoid manner in the days prior to the incident. One bystander told investigators that Blackshire thought police were coming after him.

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