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On Dec. 22, Columbus police responded to a non-emergency disturbance call made by a neighbor on the 1000 block of Oberlin Drive on the citys Northwest Side about a man sitting for an extended period of time in an SUV that was running off and on.  A short time later, the man, identified Wednesday as 47-year-old Andre Maurice Hill, was dead after being shot by a responding officer.  The shooting comes at the end of a year that has seen protests across the nation against racial injustice by...

Hours after local U.S. Attorney David DeVillers issued a statement about the Casey Goodson Jr. shooting death case Wednesday, incoming Franklin County Prosecutor Gary Tyack issued his own statement that appeared to clarify some of the information DeVillers released.  DeVillers said in his announcement that his office is overseeing the joint investigation into the Dec. 4 shooting death of 23-year-old Goodson by Franklin County Sheriffs SWAT deputy Jason Meade on Estates Place in the Northeast...

By Lydia Taylor and Pete Grieve Columbus PUBLISHED 12:30 PM ET Dec. 16, 2020 PUBLISHED 12:30 PM EST Dec. 16, 2020 SHARE COLUMBUS, Ohio — U.S. Attorney David DeVillers for the Southern District of Ohio released a new statement Wednesday regarding details of the investig...

The Appeal: Political Report titled "Newly Elected Prosecutors Are Challenging The Death Penalty," which effectively reviews the political success of a significant number of prosecutors who have pledged not to pursue capital sentences. Here is parts of the poast: Death penalty opponents have made great strides over the last decade, getting states to outlaw the sentence or at least reduce its use. Now they’re gaining allies from local officials with direct power to shut down capital punishment...

What we know about the fatal shooting of Casey Goodson Jr. by a Franklin County deputy Staff reports, The Columbus Dispatch Video: Casey Goodsons mother speaks about sons death. Replay Video UP NEXT The shooting Friday, Dec. 4, of a 23-year-old Black man by a Franklin County deputy assigned to a U.S. Marshals task force in Columbus has drawn attention and criticism across Ohio and beyond. © Provided Casey Goodson Jr. , Provided photo The incident comes at the end of a year...

Casey Goodson was fatally shot outside his apartment Friday. Authorities and family members tell conflicting stories about what led up to his death.

The Franklin County Board of Elections recertified vote totals Thursday in two close races that were subject to recounts earlier this month. The final outcomes — Republican incumbent state Sen. Stephanie Kunze winning reelection over Democratic challenger Crystal Lett and the passage of a Gahanna-Jefferson school district bond and tax issue — did not change from the countys earlier certification, but the vote totals changed slightly. The margins in both races fell within one-half of 1% of t...

Franklin County Commissioners are showing a new urgency to get body cameras for county sheriffs deputies and make related policy changes in the wake of the fatal shooting of Casey Goodson Jr. by a SWAT deputy last Friday. The commissioners also urged Tuesday that the public withhold judgment about the shooting until after an investigation by the Columbus police Critical Incident Response Team and the FBI and the review by new county Prosecutor Gary Tyack and the U.S. Department of Justice. ...

The SWAT deputy, Jason Meade, shot and killed 23-year-old Casey C. Goodson Jr., who is alleged to have waved a gun at the deputy from a car, then refused orders to drop the weapon after he got out of the vehicle and tried to enter a nearby apartment. The case has become emotionally charged, with Goodsons attorney and family members claiming that he was shot in the back while carrying Subway sandwiches into the home of his grandmother, with whom he lived. While OBrien has established a policy o...