Glover's charred body was later found in a destroyed Chevrolet Malibu parked on a Mississippi River levee near a police station.
[1] New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) Officer David Warren was indicted and tried on federal charges relating to Glover's death,[2] eventually resulting in an acquittal after a retrial following his initial conviction.
[5] The next day, Matthew Macdonald, an African-American civilian from Connecticut, was shot and killed by an officer for allegedly resisting arrest.
[6][7] Officer Warren was charged with a federal civil rights violation, specifically one count of committing manslaughter with a firearm.
Police Lieutenant Travis McCabe was charged with obstructing justice and lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
[8][5][3] Prosecutors alleged[5][3] that Warren had fatally shot Glover in the chest with a .223 rifle near an Algiers strip mall.
Several SWAT officers testified in trial that Tanner actually fled from a marked police car near the school.
While it was alleged by William Tanner in numerous media interviews that the SWAT officers let Henry Glover bleed to death in the car, the trial testimony of Lt. Scheuermann proved that in fact he had checked Glover's body for any signs of life and in fact he was already deceased.
NOPD officer Gregory McRae set fire to Glover’s body as it sat inside Tanner’s 2001 Chevrolet Malibu.
[17] The defendants cited local media coverage along with the portrayal in Treme when they sought a change of venue for the re-trial.