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On June 27, 2022, at approximately 12:30 a.m., Akron, Ohio, police officers shot Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old American from Akron.Following an attempted traffic stop and car chase, footage showed an officer saying that Walker’s car is slowing down, having reached speeds of more than 50 miles per hour (80 km/h) in residential neighborhoods.
Adam Coy, 48, was found guilty of murder, felonious assault, and reckless homicide in the December 2020 shooting death of Andre Hill, 47.
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 ...
Hill was unarmed, and was holding a smartphone. 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]
In 2008, Ohio had 225 police officers per 100,000 residents. [3] In 2014, the United States Department of Justice published a report that investigated the use of force by the Cleveland Police Department from 2010-2013. The Justice Department found a pattern of excessive force including the use of firearms, tasers, fists, and chemical spray that ...
Defense attorneys for a former Ohio police officer who fatally shot unarmed Black man Andre Hill told jurors in opening statements of his murder trial Thursday he was justified because he thought ...
Raymond Tensing (born November 13, 1989), [4] a white police officer who was 25 years old at the time of the shooting, had four years of law enforcement experience. He joined the University of Cincinnati Police Department (UCPD) in April 2014, [5] having previously been a well-regarded officer with the department of Greenhills, Ohio. [6]
(Reuters) -Police killed Jayland Walker, a Black man in Ohio, by shooting him dozens of times as he ran from officers following a traffic stop, a lawyer for his family said, citing a review of ...