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A former college football player who wrecked his car and went looking for help was shot 10 times and killed by a Charlotte-area police officer who took him for an intruder, according to court records and news accounts of the September 2013 case.

Jonathan A. Ferrell, 24, crashed his car around 2:30 a.m. on Sept. 14, 2013, in the Bradfield Farms neighborhood outside Charlotte, North Carolina, after dropping off a coworker. Investigators said the wreck was severe enough that Ferrell had to kick out a rear window to climb free.

Ferrell walked to the nearest house and pounded on the door. The woman inside, home alone with her infant, believed someone was trying to break in and called 911, telling a dispatcher that a man was trying to kick down her front door, according to trial testimony and a released call transcript.

Three Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers responded. When Ferrell moved toward them, one officer fired a Taser that missed, and Officer Randall "Wes" Kerrick opened fire, discharging his handgun 12 times and striking Ferrell 10 times, including five rounds to the chest, prosecutors said. Ferrell, who was unarmed, died at the scene. Toxicology reports later showed his blood-alcohol level was 0.06, below North Carolina's 0.08 limit for driving, and found no drugs in his system.

The recording archived with this case is police radio traffic from the response, not the homeowner's 911 call.

Kerrick was charged with voluntary manslaughter the next day and released on bond. A grand jury initially declined to indict him on that charge in January 2014, but the state attorney general's office presented the case to a second, fuller grand jury, which returned an indictment days later.

Kerrick's trial in the summer of 2015 ended without a verdict. After four days of deliberation, jurors deadlocked 8 to 4, and a judge declared a mistrial on Aug. 21, 2015. State prosecutors said they would not seek a retrial, and Kerrick resigned from the department that October. The city of Charlotte had earlier agreed to pay Ferrell's family $2.25 million to settle a civil claim.