A $4.8 million settlement has been reached in the fatal shooting of a black driver by a soldier

“Taxpayers should know why the state settled this case for nearly $5 million,” Johnson said.

Ms Totten did not respond to emails or phone calls on Sunday.

Kara Richardson, a spokeswoman for the Georgia attorney general’s office, confirmed the settlement on Sunday but did not comment further. Keith Barber, Mr Thompson’s lawyer, declined to comment on Sunday.

Days after the shooting, Mr. Thompson was fired and charged with murder and aggravated assault. In June of last year, a the grand jury refused to indict him.

Lindsay Milton, Mr Lewis’ mother, hinted at the time that race was a factor in the grand jury’s decision, saying: “They’re going to let this young man free because my child was a black man. “

To bring attention to Mr. Lewis’ case, his son, Brook Bacon, led a 63-mile March for Justice in September from Sylvania, Georgia, near where Mr. Lewis was arrested, to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia in Savannah, Johnson said.

Mr Bacon said in a statement: ‘We will have no rest until his killer is behind bars.’

The U.S. Attorney’s Office said in September that he was “in consultation” with the FBI about the circumstances of Mr Lewis’ death.

Jenna Sellitto, spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Atlanta field office, declined to comment on Sunday. Barry L. Paschal, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia, also declined to comment but said the investigation is continuing.