Minister sues family of woman killed in botched drug raid

Atlanta, Georgia - Reverend Markel Hutchins, a so-called community activist, is suing the family of Kathryn Johnston, an elderly woman who was innocently gunned down by Atlanta police, during a botched 2006 drug raid.

Hutchins is asking for $500,000 of the family's nearly 5 million dollar settlement.

The seemingly rapacious reverend said Sarah Dozier, Kathryn Johnston's niece, asked him to be the family's spokesman in their time of need.

Whatever the alleged agreement was, if there was an agreement at all, was never put in writing.

When CBS Atlanta reporter, Jeff Chirico asked Hutchins why he didn't get the financial agreement on paper, the good reverend said, "I felt it was morally inept of me to shove a piece of paper in front of the family before we had a chance to bury Kathryn Johnston."

Yes, but now that Kathryn Johnston is resting in piece; Hutchins wants his piece of the pie, before the dessert is all gone.

Friday, August 26, 2011, Fulton County Superior Court Judge, Doris Downs, wisely denied Hutchins' request to freeze Dozier family's bank accounts.

Hutchins and his equally shameful attorney, vowed to continue their pursuit to get a chunk of Kathryn Johnson's wrongful death settlement.

Photo credit: CBS Atlanta News.