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BODY CAM: New Lebanon officer says he shot man twice from the back WHIO Staff
Body camera footage released Friday shows a New Lebanon police officer shoot a man during a traffic stop on Franklin Street earlier this month.
The video obtained through a public records request by News Center 7 shows the officer pull over a woman for driving on a closed road and having expired license plates around 12:30 a.m. on Dec. 10.
After initially talking to the female driver and a male front passenger, the officer returns to his cruiser for about four minutes. A man in the back seat of the car does not appear to say anything.
Health officials and drug treatment experts were alarmed this fall to learn that 548 Ohioans had died of drug overdoses in May, the most in any month in at least 14 years.
And newly released preliminary figures from the Ohio Department of Health indicate that May was not a statistical outlier.
Overdose deaths in June and July also have set monthly record highs, claiming 481 and 442 lives, respectively.
County coroners are given six months to investigate and rule on overdose deaths, which means that should the trend continues, deaths are on track to break the all-time annual record of 4,854 set in 2017.
20% increase in deaths the first months of 2020, compared to 2019
Exhumations can help uncover long-buried secrets. So why are so few done in Ohio?
Exhumations are a rarely used tool, with most Ohio counties reporting doing none in the past decade.
Stephanie Warsmith and Paula Schleis, Akron Beacon Journal
Published
11:15 am UTC Dec. 16, 2020
When Mike Metcalf learned police were exhuming the body of his sister whose death was ruled a suicide in 1985 he thought, “Why?”
Margaret Purk s family always suspected her husband had a hand in her death, but a coroner s ruling had closed the case. How could her remains change anyone s mind 26 years later?
They did, and Scott Purk is now in prison for her murder.
Justice for Casey Goodson in Columbus, Ohio
By Martha Grevatt posted on December 16, 2020
Nighttime rally for Casey Goodson, Dec. 11, Columbus.
Franklin County Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Jason Meade killed Casey “Tank” Goodson Jr. in his family’s Columbus, Ohio, home on Dec. 4. According to family eyewitnesses, Goodson “literally walked across the yard, walked into the back fence to get to the side door, had his Subway [sandwich] and mask in one hand [and] keys in the other, unlocked and opened the door and stepped in the house” – and then was shot. The family dispute claims by the sheriff’s department that Goodson pointed a gun at Meade. (Black Queer Intersectional Collective of Ohio facebook)