Last week, Levar Jones, an unarmed black man, was shot by a South Carolina police officer during a routine traffic stop. Fortunately, Jones survived the encounter. In February, however, Ernest Satterwhite, another unarmed black man who encountered a similarly trigger-happy S.C. cop, wasn't so lucky— the cop shot and killed him after a low-speed chase ended in Satterwhite's own driveway.

For whatever reason—perhaps because no video of that shooting has been released, or perhaps because the case has remained shrouded in mystery—Satterwhite's case didn't attract the national attention that Jones' did.

But now some details are coming to light. This week, Justin Craven, the 25-year-old North Augusta public safety officer who shot the former mechanic, was indicted. The Associated Press reports that a prosecutor sought to charge Craven with voluntary manslaughter, a felony that carries up to 30 years in prison, but ultimately, he was charged with misconduct in office, a misdemeanor.

Prosecutors wouldn't say why they went after the manslaughter charge, and the indictment doesn't shed light beyond Craven's alleged use of excessive force and failure "to follow and use proper procedures." The South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division denied the AP's freedom-of-information requests for any evidence against Craven.

Satterwhite, who was 68 and a great-grandfather, had a history of nonviolent traffic violations—the AP notes a habit of "ignoring police officers who tried to pull him over." He apparently ignored one such attempt at a traffic stop the night he was killed. Craven believed Satterwhite may have been drinking and driving:

The few details released raised concerns among law enforcement experts. In the likely 10 to 15 minutes he trailed Satterwhite, Craven should have had time to learn he was headed home and had no violent incidents on his criminal record, said University of South Carolina criminology professor Geoffrey Alpert.

Police records show Satterwhite had been arrested more than a dozen times for traffic violations, most of them for driving under suspension or under the influence. Most of the charges led to convictions. He also was charged at least three times for failing to stop as officers tried to pull him over. But his record shows no evidence he ever physically fought with an officer.

Edgefield County deputies who joined in the chase reported that Craven ran up to Satterwhite's parked car and fired several shots into the driver's side door, telling the other officers that Satterwhite tried to grab his gun. The other officers couldn't get Satterwhite's door open, so they broke the passenger side window, unlocked that door and dragged him out.

A lawsuit filed by Satterwhite's family, however, alleges that Satterwhite did not reach for Craven's weapon. Carter Elliott, the family's attorney, seeks to have dashcam footage of the shooting released. South Carolina police have shot 35 people and killed 16 so far this year.