A former soldier who was shot dead by police during a drugs raid was killed lawfully, a jury has ruled.
Sean Fitzgerald, 31, died from a single gunshot wound to his chest after leaving a property in Coventry at around 6.20pm on January 4, 2019.
West Midlands Police were investigating the activities of a suspected organised crime gang in Burnaby Road, an inquest at Coventry Coroner's Court heard.
A jury in the six-week inquest was asked to consider whether Mr Fitzgerald had been lawfully or unlawfully killed by the officer who fired the fatal shot.
The officer, who was given anonymity and referred to only as Officer K, told the inquest he had been standing in the back garden of the property when he saw a curtain move.
