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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 Sheriff's SWAT deputy Jason Meade on Estates Place in the Northeast Side. Investigators from the Columbus police Critical Incident Response Team, the FBI, the U.S. D...

If there were security cameras in the residential area that captured any part of the incident, that is among many details that haven't been revealed by investigators. "Without a body camera and with no witnesses, maybe the truth will never be known," said Michael Miller, a former Franklin County prosecutor. It's unclear when Meade, who remains on paid administrative leave, will sit down to give a statement and answer questions from the Columbus Division of Police's Critical Incident Response Team, which is investigating the shooting along with the FBI. Historically, officers involved in fata...

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 investigation into the shooting and killing of Casey Goodson Jr.  DeVillers, along with the Columbus Polic...

If there is a best practice for the handling of shootings of civilians by law enforcement, the investigation into the death of Casey C. Goodson Jr. is not it. For more than a week now, four separate law enforcement agencies have batted around responsibility for the investigation like children swatting shuttlecocks around a grade-school gymnasium. Where to begin? We have had the city of Columbus, which was not involved in the shooting but tasked with investigating it, ask for the assistance of the state. For a brief period it seems they were told, yes, until Attorney General Dave Yost step...

A former employee of the Ohio-based Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s Research Institute has pleaded guilty to selling American research secrets in China. Yu Zhou, 50, formerly of Dublin, Ohio, admitted to conspiring to steal scientific trade secrets related to research, identification and treatment of a range of pediatric medical conditions. “The Chinese government has created a large-scale, sophisticated system to steal American ingenuity,” said U.S. Attorney David DeVillers in a statement following Zhou’s guilty plea. “We hope this conviction demonstrates that we will fight this...