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A former police officer who fatally shot an unarmed Black man in Ohio after allegedly mistaking his keys and phone for a gun, has been convicted of murder.
Adam Coy, 48, was found guilty of murder, felonious assault, and reckless homicide in the December 2020 shooting death of Andre Hill, 47. Ex-Ohio police officer found guilty of murder in 2020 ...
A former Ohio police officer was convicted of murder by a jury on Monday for fatally shooting Andre Hill, an unarmed Black man. Adam Coy, a white man and nearly 20-year veteran of the Columbus ...
Rankin was found guilty of manslaughter, but not guilty of murder. [81] 4 April 2015: Michael Slager 2 May 2017 (pleaded guilty) North Charleston Police Department (South Carolina) Slager fatally shot 50-year-old Walter Scott in the back as he fled after being stopped for an inoperative brake light. Slager then dropped his Taser by Scott's ...
Coy was fired from the Columbus Police less than a week later. [1] [2] The shooting was the second killing by police in Columbus in December 2020, following the shooting of Casey Goodson on December 4 by a Franklin County Sheriff's deputy. [3] Coy's trial would begin in October 2024. [4] On November 4, 2024, Coy was found guilty in the killing. [5]
Ten days after killing Sam DuBose with gunshot to the head, Ray Tensing was indicted on charges of murder and voluntary manslaughter on July 29, 2015. The murder charge carries a penalty of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for 15 years. [49] As a result of the indictment, he was fired from the UCPD.
A white former police officer charged in the fatal shooting of a Black man in Columbus, Ohio, four years ago testified in his murder trial that he believed the man had a gun and “was coming ...
The shooting deaths of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams, two Black American individuals, occurred in East Cleveland, Ohio on November 29, 2012, at the conclusion of a 22-minute police chase which started in downtown Cleveland, when police erroneously claimed shots were fired at them as Russell and Williams drove by a squad car; the cause of the shots was their vehicle's exhaust pipe ...