*(Via CBS News) – CBS News has learned that a 2009 investigation by the Tulsa Sheriff’s Office concluded that there were concerns over Robert Bates‘ behavior in the field. Bates, a 73-year-old reserve ...

Robert Bates, a 74-year-old volunteer reserve sheriff’s deputy in Oklahoma, fatally shot Eric Harris, a 44-year-old unarmed man, who was on the ground and subdued by other police officers last year.

Former reserve Deputy Robert Bates decided against a trip to the Bahamas and instead spent a couple of days at his Florida home after a storm of public scorn engulfed him, his attorney said Tuesday.

Robert Bates, the Oklahoma reserve deputy who fatally shot Eric Harris while Harris was detained, has been charged with second-degree manslaughter, CNN reports. Video footage of the incident has been ...

Robert Bates is projected to be released from prison in mid-October, which would cut about 2½ years off his four-year sentence for manslaughter in Eric Harris’ shooting death.

The plot continues to thicken regarding just how experienced Robert Bates—the Oklahoma reserve officer who accidentally killed an unarmed man, Eric Harris, earlier this month—really is. According to ...