Hearing scheduled in police shooting
A coroner’s inquest jury is scheduled to hear testimony today in the shooting of a suspected male prostitute by a Metro police officer.
Attorney Leon Simons. will preside over the six-juror panel.
The jury will decide whether the shooting of Donald Bryan Schiess, 20, was justifiable.
The victim was shot by vice officer George Pease after he allegedly pulled a knife against the undercover officer.
Police said Pease did not have time to identify himself as an officer before he pulled a gun from under the seat of a car and fired three times, killing Schiess.