“When we analyze police involved shootings, we must look to the totality of the circumstances and we are expressly forbidden from using 20/20 hindsight, because unlike all of us, officers are not afforded the luxury of armchair reflection when they are faced with rapidly evolving, volatile encounters in dangerous situations,” the statement by attorneys Mark Collins and Kaitlin Stephens said. Bickel/The Columbus Dispatch/ImagnĬolumbus, Ohio, approves $10 million settlement to the family of Andre Hill Coy has been terminated from the division for his involvement in the killing.Andre Hill Funeral Joshua A. Several minutes pass before any aid is rendered to Hill, who was known to the residents of the house and was expected to be there. According to body-worm camera footage from Officer Coy, Hill is seen inside a garage with his cell phone visible in his left hand and is shot within seconds of the interaction. 22, 2020 after officers responded to a non-emergency call in the 1000 block of Oberlin Drive. Hill, a 47-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by Columbus Division of Police Officer Adam Coy in the early morning of Dec.
5, 2021 at First Church of God in Columbus, Ohio. Lewis’ death follows a string of other police shootingsĪttorneys for the officer expressed sympathy for Lewis’ family in a statement Thursday but said police officers “are forced to make split-second decisions in response to the actions of others.”įlowers and blankets near the casket of Andre' Maurice Hill during his funeral on Tuesday, Jan. Lewis was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:19 a.m., according to the Columbus Police statement. Once Lewis was handcuffed, video shows, officers began rendering aid. In the body camera video, the K9 is seen barking outside a back bedroom door, then officers enter the apartment and warn they are going to send a dog in.Īn officer is seen opening the bedroom door, where a man is seen on a bed.īodycam video shows Anderson firing a single shot at a man, later identified as Lewis, moments after opening the bedroom door.ĭuring the news conference, Bryant showed the body camera video frame-by-frame, asserting that the moment Anderson opened fire, it appeared Lewis was holding “something” in his hand.Ī vape pen was later found next to Lewis on the bed, Bryant says. “Once the K9 officer arrived on the scene, additional announcements were made for anyone else inside to come out or the K9 was going to be released inside of the apartment,” Bryant said. Officers asked if anyone else was inside the apartment, Bryant said, but were unable to determine that, and Anderson and a K9 were then called in by Columbus Police to see if anyone else was inside. A second man inside the apartment was detained about a minute later.Ī screengrab from bodycam footage shows Columbus Police Officer Ricky Anderson and K9 moments before shooting and killing 20-year-old Donovan Lewis. He told officers he’d been asleep, and they took a knife from his pocket. They call for “Donovan” by name several times.Įventually, a man came to the door and was detained by police, Bryant said. Police body camera video shows them knocking and calling out to occupants repeatedly for more than eight minutes. “The officers knocked on the door for several minutes … acknowledging themselves as Columbus Police officers,” Bryant said. A news release by police indicated the man who was shot, later identified as Lewis, as the person sought in the felony warrant. Tuesday at an apartment building where uniformed officers were serving a felony warrant for domestic violence and assault and improper handling of a firearm, Bryant said. The shooting of Lewis happened around 2 a.m. The US Department of Justice has agreed to review the city’s Division of Police.
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The case follows a spate of deadly, controversial police encounters with Black Americans that have sparked protests nationwide, including in Columbus, where a series of killings by law enforcement have happened since 2020. The shooting is under investigation by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, and Anderson is on leave, Columbus Police Chief Elaine Bryant said Tuesday at a news conference. While police claim that Casey drove by, waving a gun, and was confronted by the deputy after exiting his vehicle, that narrative leaves out key details that raise cause for extreme concern.Ģ special prosecutors have been appointed in case of Casey Goodson Jr.
Casey was not a target of that task force and his death is completely unrelated to that investigation.
Casey was an amazing young man whose life was tragically taken after being confronted by a Franklin County Sheriff's Deputy who was working with the US Marshal's Southern Ohio Fugitive Task Force. demands answers after Casey was shot and killed by a police officer on December 4, 2020. DECEMThe Family of Casey Christopher Goodson, Jr.
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