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A crippling pandemic, a racial injustice reckoning, a statehouse scandal and a divisive election. In any other year in Ohio, just one of those would have been the biggest story of the...

Columbus Division of Police/WOSU Originally published on December 24, 2020 6:16 pm Updated 6 p.m. ET Thursday Body camera footage shows a Columbus police officer fatally shooting 47-year-old Andre Maurice Hill less than 10 seconds after finding him in a garage early Tuesday. The officer who shot him is Adam Coy, a 19-year veteran of the department who has since been placed on paid administrative leave. Coy is white; Hill was Black. Police say no weapon was found at the scene. Thursday, Col...

Who Is Adam Coy? Ohio Cop Shoots Unarmed Black Man Andre Maurice Hill 12/24/20 AT 11:51 AM An officer in Columbus, Ohio, is on paid administrative leave after shooting an unarmed Black man in his own garage. Officer Adam Coy, 44, shot 47-year-old Andre Maurice Hill on Tuesday while responding to a non-emergency call about a man sitting inside a car, turning the ignition on and off, NPR reports. During the first minute of Coy’s bodycam footage, which was released on Wednesday, there is no aud...

Pandemic, protests and politics lead Ohio’s top stories of 2020 Associated Press Workers in scrubs and masks walk by the Ohio Theatre in Columbus in August, amid the coronavirus pandemic. Julie Carr Smyth | AP People bundled against the cold stand in a slowly moving line Oct. 30 to cast early votes at the Franklin County Board of Elections in Columbus. Andrew Welsh-Huggins | AP A crippling pandemic, a racial injustice reckoning, a statehouse scandal and a divisive election. In any other y...

4:02 In the course of seven years, HB6 sends $1 billion in subsidies to nuclear plants, $140 million to solar farms, and hundreds of millions of dollars to coal plants, paid for by new charges on every Ohio electric user’s bills. All while cutting green energy mandates.  The beginning of 2020 had so much on its plate with the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent economic downturn that it seemed like the controversial energy law had been left in the rear view mirror.  Then in July everythin...

Hill was shot early Tuesday morning after police responded to a report of a suspicious car. Author: 10TV Web Staff Updated: 2:38 PM EST December 23, 2020 The City of Columbus has identified the police officer who shot and killed a Black man responding to a non-emergency call early Tuesday morning. The man, 47-year-old Andre Hill, was identified to 10TV by his family members Wednesday morning. According to police, officers were dispatched to Oberlin Drive in north...

City officials said the officer did not turn on his body-worn camera until after the shooting occurred.

Bodycam Video Shows Officer Shoot Unarmed Black Man After 10-Second Interaction This is the second officer-involved shooting in the community this month. December 23, 2020 at 4:49 pm (Update, December 24, 2020) Horrifying video footage of Columbus, Ohio officer Adam Coy shooting 47-year-old Andre Maurice Hill has been released, showing the moments before and after the incident, according to ABC News.In the video, which has no sound at the beginning because Coy did not turn on his bodycam, Hill...

Columbus officer who shot unarmed Black man has history of complaints Bethany Bruner, Megan Henry and Dean Narciso, The Columbus Dispatch © Joshua A. Bickel/Columbus Dispatch A small set of candles adorn a sidewalk on Oberlin Drive on the Northwest Side Wednesday, near the site of Tuesdays fatal police shooting of Andre Maurice Hill. Adam Coy, 44, has been a police officer in Columbus since July 2001. Early Tuesday morning, Coy shot and killed 47-year-old Andre Maurice Hill...

A weapon was not recovered at the scene.  The mans name has not been released, pending family notification. Columbus police officers involved in shootings are not identified for at least 24 hours after the shooting, per Division of Police policy.  "The body-worn camera footage also documents a delay in rendering of first-aid to the man," according to a city Department of Public Safety release.    The officer involved in the shooting has been placed on administrative leave. He will not re...