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Home/News from NPR/Ohio Officer’s Bodycam Shows He Shot Unarmed Black Man Within 10 Seconds Of Encounter Ohio Officer’s Bodycam Shows He Shot Unarmed Black Man Within 10 Seconds Of Encounter By Gabriel Rosenberg  December 23, 2020 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. Columbus police released records and video of the encounter Wednes...

Nick Evans / WOSU Dave DeVillers, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, will review the case of a Columbus Police officer fatally shooting an unarmed Black man for possible federal civil rights violations. The officer, identified as 19-year veteran Adam Coy, was placed on paid administrative leave for failing to activate his body-worn camera before shooting 47-year-old Andre Maurice Hill in the city's Cranbrook neighborhood.  Officers were responding early that morning to a non-emergency call about someone sitting in a vehicle for an extended period of time. According to poli...

A police officer in Columbus, Ohio, was temporarily removed from duty pending the outcome of criminal and internal investigations following the fatal shooting of an apparently unarmed Black man early Tuesday. Mayor Andrew Ginther demanded that the unidentified officer who fired the shot be removed following news that the officer's body camera was switched off in the moments leading up to the shooting. "While it is very early in the investigation, there is one fact that disturbs me greatly," Ginther said in a news conference Tuesday, according to member station WOSU. "The officer involved did ...

WOSU A Columbus police officer shot and killed a Black man early Tuesday morning. The mayor says the officer did not turn on his body-worn camera until after the shooting. Mayor Andrew Ginther says a Columbus Police officer has been relieved of duty for failing to activate his body camera before fatally shooting a Black man early Tuesday morning. The incident happened on Oberlin Drive in the Cranbrook neighborhood around 1:30 a.m., following complaints of a suspicious vehicle in the area. According to a Columbus Police statement, a resident reported a man sitting in an SUV "for an extended p...

Rather than repeal or replace House Bill 6, the state's GOP-controlled Legislature is weighing whether to delay fees on residents' electrical bills for one year. The fees subsidize two northern Ohio nuclear plants owned by Energy Harbor. But there's a catch: House Republicans did not have the votes needed to stop those fees from being collected for the first time in January. So if the changes are approved, fees would hit Ohioans' bills in the first months of 2021 and be refunded later.  A House committee narrowly approved the one-year delay with an 8-7 vote on House Bill 798 Wednesday,...