DeKalb County prosecutors are dropping their review of a 2003 shooting by a police officer that left a knife-wielding suspect dead and resulted in the officer's resignation. Former county police officer Alexander Brown shot Stanley Bates to death in 2003 and resigned from the force afterward. The office of then-District Attorney J. Tom Morgan declined to prosecute Brown, but Morgan's successor, Gwen Keyes Fleming, reopened the case last year as part of a broader investigation of a dozen more recent shootings by police. The district attorney's office presented evidence about the incident to the grand jury in late May. The jurors split 9-9 after when asked whether the shooting was justified and whether the criminal investigation should continue, said Orzy Theus, spokesman for Keyes Fleming.