Columbus reaches $10M settlement for family of Andre Hill
By Andrew Welsh-Huggins - Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Ohio’s capital city will pay a $10 million settlement for the family of Andre Hill, a Black man who was fatally shot by a white Columbus police officer in December as he emerged from a garage holding a cellphone, the Columbus city attorney announced Friday.
It’s the largest such settlement in city history.
Hill, 47, was fatally shot by white police officer Adam Coy on Dec. 22 as Hill emerged from a garage holding up a cellphone. Coy was fired and has pleaded not guilty to murder charges.
Columbus, Ohio will pay a $10m settlement to the family of Andre Hill, a Black man who was fatally shot by a white police officer in December as he emerged from a garage holding a cellphone, the Columbus city attorney announced on Friday.
It is the largest such settlement in the city’s history.
Hill, 47, was fatally shot by officer Adam Coy on December 22 as Hill emerged from a garage holding up a cellphone. Coy was fired and has pleaded not guilty to murder and reckless homicide charges.
“No amount of money will ever bring Andre Hill back to his family, but we believe this is an important and necessary step in the right direction,” Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein said in a statement.
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Published 14 May 2021
The US city of Columbus, Ohio, has reached a $10 million settlement with the family of an unarmed black man who was killed by a police officer last year.
Andre Hill, 47, was shot dead on December 22 by Columbus police officer Adam Coy.
Coy, who is white, was subsequently dismissed from the police force and faces murder charges.
Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein said the $10 million settlement is the largest in the history of the midwestern city.
“We understand that because of this former officer’s actions, the Hill family will never be whole,” Klein said in a statement.
The Columbus Dispatch
Two and a half years after police warned a Galloway man that a home he owns in the Hilltop was the site of drug dealing and other felony criminal activity, the city of Columbus obtained a court order Tuesday declaring the property a public nuisance.
Frederick D. George, who is in his 60s, signed the agreement order in Franklin County Environmental Court granting a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order to evict the tenants and board up the property at 135 N. Burgess Ave.
In a court document, Zach Gwin, an assistant city attorney in City Attorney Zach Klein s office, listed numerous police runs to the property after the Dec. 11, 2018 warning by certified mail to George of drugs and guns found during a search warrant executed there in December 2018.