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An Atlanta Police officer has been fired after she was accused of stealing $500 from the victim of a fatal shooting in June.

Officer Keisha Richburg was fired from the force following an administrative investigation into the allegations. She was accused of taking the money from homicide victim Jamel Harris after it was allegedly handed over to her by a woman who found him, along with his I.D.

In a statement to Newsweek, the Atlanta Police Department said the investigation did not determine if Richburg took the money, but she was fired for not properly accounting for it according to the department's policies and procedures.

"Officer integrity goes to the heart of what we do here every single day," Police Chief Erika Shields said in the statement. "It's imperative the public have trust in our word and our actions. It's extremely disappointing to see the victim of a fatal shooting be victimized twice by the actions of one of our officers."

The accusations stem from an alleged incident which occurred on Marietta Road in Northwest Atlanta on June 19. Leilani Collier said she had found Jamel Harris by the side of the road with a gunshot wound.

She said she also found his driver's license in his wallet, as well as a stack of cash, WSB-TV reported at the time.

"It was a stack. There was a smaller stack underneath, so it had to be $500 or $600, or maybe even more," Collier said.

She told the station she then handed over the items, along with the money, to a female police officer who arrived at the scene.

"I gave the officer his wallet, just how I pulled it out of his pocket is the way I gave it to her, and I was like, 'This is his I.D. and his cash and his wallet,'" Collier said.

The victim's widow, who was nine months pregnant at the time, said she was aware that the money had been handed over, but the department said they knew nothing about it when she inquired after it.

"It's pretty awful," Lanique Harris told WSB-TV. "We have a mortgage to pay. We have funeral expenses. He didn't have life insurance. Just that money would have really helped us."

The Atlanta Police Department said once the administrative investigation is closed, it will be handed over to District Attorney Paul Howard's office for review.

An-Nur Green, 43, was arrested and charged with murder in connection to the shooting. Police believe the pair had got into an argument which turned violent, resulting in Green allegedly shooting Jamel Harris.

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