Authorities in Georgia said a former police officer turned himself in Friday after he failed to investigate a murder case in which his brother was implicated.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said D’Marquivius Jamon “DJ” King, 25, was indicted by a Spalding County grand jury with one count of violation of oath of office.
The GBI said that Mr. King was working as an investigator for the Griffin Police Department when he was looking into the 2021 slaying of Javarreis Reid.
The agency said Mr. King learned his brother, Damon Beck, was tied to the killing and subsequently “failed to properly investigate the murder.”
The GBI didn’t say what exactly Mr. King failed to do during his investigation.
In February 2023, prosecutors in Griffin asked the agency to examine Mr. King’s handling of the case.
Mr. Beck, the former’s cop brother, was arrested and charged with murder and aggravated assault eight months after Reid was killed.
He is one of three codefendants in the case and is currently being held in the Spalding County Jail.