No charges in fatal Kroger shooting

The Marion County prosecutor’s office said Wednesday that a local Kroger employee who fatally shot a robbery suspect will not be charged. Jeremy Atkinson, 26, was shot to death Dec. 26 while trying to rob the Kroger near 71st Street and Georgetown Road. According to witnesses and surveillance video, Atkinson placed an object into the back of a female employee and forced her into an office area where another employee, Levi Elliott, shot him in the face. The prosecutor’s office said it “believes that the shooting was justified to prevent the commission of a forcible felony and based upon Indiana law pertaining to self-defense and defense of others.”