STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A grand jury has decided not to indict Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo in connection with Eric Garner's death, multiple law enforcement sources have told the Advance.

The panel voted "no bill" and declined to file charges against Pantaleo.

Officials have yet to make an official announcement.

The panel sat for more than two months hearing evidence and could have considered a range of charges, from murder to a lesser offense such as reckless endangerment.

Garner, a 43-year-old father of six from Port Richmond, died of a police chokehold July 17 in Tompkinsville. The city's medical examiner ruled Garner's death a homicide caused by a chokehold.

Pantaleo can be seen in a video placing Garner in the maneuver while trying to arrest him for allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes.

Before the decision was revealed, Garner's mother, Gwen Carr, said, "You'd have to be blind or prejudice to say there's no probable cause."

Donovan convened a special grand jury in September, and several witnesses testified over the last couple of months about what they saw.

They also described the jury as racially diverse, with several minorities.

One Staten Island resident who offered his testimony told the jury he saw Pantaleo in Tompkinsville Park, directly across from where Garner died, right before the incident.

The man claims he and Pantaleo saw Garner break up a fight between two men, and said he thought Pantaleo was going to approach the two men before he saw him move in on Garner.

The witness told the jury he then saw Pantaleo come up from behind Garner and put him in a chokehold.

"I saw him go down and all the other officers converge on him," the man said he told the panel.

Another Tompkinsville resident and a store employee who were subpoenaed testified they also saw Pantaleo put Garner in a chokehold.

"I told them I heard the banging at the window and saw the chokehold," the store employee said. "I saw a female cop telling him (Pantaleo) to get off him."

Pantaleo also testified before the panel and told them he didn't use a chokehold and had no intention of harming Garner.

Pantaleo was stripped of his gun and badge and put on desk duty following the incident. Another officer, Justin D'Amico, was also assigned to desk work, but did not have his gun and badge taken away.

D'Amico also testified before the panel and was given immunity from prosecution, Pantaleo's attorney, Stuart London, told the New York Post.

Pantaleo and D'Amico, along with officers Craig Furlani, Christopher Maldonado, William Meems and Mark Ramos, were named as defendants in the notice of claim filed by the Garner family planning to sue the city and the NYPD for $75 million.

Following the fatal encounter, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton announced that every officer in the 35,000-member NYPD will undergo retraining.

-- Associated Press material was used in this report.