The Cherokee County deputy who killed a 16-year old boy during a standoff last month did nothing wrong. That’s according to an exhaustive report by the GBI obtained by WSB News.

It was a nightmare situation in the Eagle Watch subdivision May 1st.

“I just want you to see everything that goes down so you guys know exactly what happened when I died,” said young Andrew Messina as he set up a phone to shoot video as he paraded around the house, which was surrounded by Cherokee County deputies.

In a fit of rage and depression, Messina had found his father’s 357 magnum, and used it to threaten both himself and his mother. The video shows him walking around the house, drinking and splashing liquor on the floor and walls. He told negotiators he wanted to be drunk.

“I’m going to die tonight and if I die, I want to experience this,” he shouted to a negotiator stationed just outside the front door.

Andrew did die – shot by a sheriff’s sniper after pointing the gun at deputies.

Immediately after an open records request from WSB, the GBI released more than 700 pages of documents, along with audio and video. Sheriff Roger Garrison said the material shows his deputies did all they could to save Andrew’s life.

“It remains a tragic situation, but there was no wrongdoing found on our part,” he said in a phone call late Monday night. Cherokee County District Attorney Garry Moss agreed. The GBI report contains Moss’s statement that he found no reason to prosecute, based on the detailed files compiled by state investigators.

But Garrison said for Jason Yarbrough, the deputy who fired the shot that killed young Andrew, along with negotiators who were within a few feet as the boy broke out a window on the front door and pointed the gun at them, the past seven weeks have been nothing short of a nightmare.

“The negotiators and the sniper have had to sit back and take a lot of public criticism,” said Garrison. “They are certainly relieved to have this day come.”

Messina’s parents were initially infuriated by the shooting death of their son. But Monday night, a relative told Channel 2 Action News that the family respects DA Moss’s decision not to prosecute Deputy Yarbrough.