Jonathan Ayers
Reverend Jonathan Ayers was shot and killed in 2009 by undercover police officers during a sting operation. A Baptist minister from Lavonia, Georgia, Rev. Ayers had just dropped off a parishioner suspected of dealing, whom he was attempting to counsel through drug problems. Undercover officers stopped his vehicle at a nearby gas station in Toccoa, Georgia. The officers did not identify themselves properly, and Ayers assumed he was being robbed. In attempting to escape, his car clipped one of the officers and shots were fired in response, fatally wounding Rev. Ayers. No trace of narcotics or illegal substances were found in Rev. Ayer’s car or his body.
