Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the man convicted of killing a Fulton County deputy in 2000, died Sunday in federal custody in North Carolina. He was 82.

What’s Happening: Al-Amin died at the Federal Medical Center in Butner after what his family described as a prolonged period of severe medical decline. The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed his death. He had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2014.

What’s Important: Al-Amin was serving a life sentence without parole for the March 16, 2000 shooting death of Fulton County Deputy Ricky Kinchen and the wounding of Deputy Aldranon English. The two deputies were attempting to serve an arrest warrant at Al-Amin’s West End Atlanta store when they were shot with a rifle and handgun. Kinchen died the next day at Grady Memorial Hospital at age 35

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