An attorney for a white business owner who was charged in the fatal shooting of a Black man during civil unrest in Nebraska says the man has died by suicide.
Police say Jacob Gardner’s body was found Sunday outside a medical clinic in Hillsboro, Oregon.
Attorney Stu Dornan said it was a suicide. Gardner was charged Tuesday in the death of James Scurlock.
Police say 38-year-old Gardner shot Scurlock during a protest outside Gardner’s bar in downtown Omaha on May 30. Gardner had said the shooting was done in self-defense.
Dornan says Gardner was scheduled to return to Omaha on Sunday to face the charges against him.