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Feds: No timetable for end of Alton Sterling shooting probe

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press
Published: October 11, 2016, 12:35pm

BATON ROUGE, La. — The Justice Department doesn’t have a timetable for completing its investigation of a black man’s fatal shooting by police during an altercation with two white officers outside a Baton Rouge convenience store more than three months ago, a law enforcement official said Tuesday.

Federal authorities have dedicated hundreds of hours to their investigation of Alton Sterling’s July 5 shooting and are “committed to taking all necessary steps to reach a just result based solely on the facts and the law,” U.S.

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