Community gathers as investigation into Andre Hill s death continues
Hill was shot after Officer Adam Coy and another officer, a woman who has not yet been identified, responded to a non-emergency disturbance call about a running vehicle outside a home on the 1000 block of Oberlin Drive. The officers arrived around 1:50 a.m. Tuesday and within about 10 seconds after first encountering 47-year-old Hill, Coy fired multiple shots.
After the shooting, Coy and other responding officers did not render any aid to Hill for several minutes, according to body camera video. Hill, who was not armed, was later pronounced dead at OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital.
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At a press conference, Ginther called for the immediate termination of Columbus Police officer Adam Coy, a white man, who shot and killed Andre Hill early Tuesday morning. Body camera footage released Wednesday shows Coy pulling the trigger within seconds of encountering Hill at a neighbor s garage, and then Coy and other officers at the scene failing to render aid for at least five minutes.
“A final goodbye to Casey Goodson this morning, and now we mourn the death of Andre Hill this afternoon,” Ginther said. Enough is enough. This community is exhausted. The African American community is fearful, concerned, outraged.”
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Mayor Andrew Ginther continues his virtue signalling in the aftermath of a police shooting early Tuesday morning.
At 1:30 a.m., two officers responded to a disturbance call of a man in a garage starting and stopping a car. The body camera footage was released today that showed officers approaching the subject as he moved towards officers and raised a black object toward them. His other hand was concealed.
Columbus Officer Adam Coy shot and killed Andrew Hill. Hill was black and a weapon was not found on the scene. The object turned out to be a cell phone.
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FILE PHOTO: Sean Walton, the family attorney, comforts Tamala Payne, the mother of Casey Goodson Jr., a 23-year-old Black man who was killed by police last week as he entered his home, as people gathered to protest outside of the State House in Columbus, Ohio, December 12, 2020. REUTERS/Seth Herald
(Reuters) – Police in Columbus, Ohio, said they relieved an officer of duty on Tuesday after he fatally shot an unarmed Black man, the city’s second law enforcement shooting death of an African-American man in the past month.
The latest incident unfolded in the early hours of Tuesday after officers responded to a non-emergency complaint about a man turning a car on and off for an extended period, Columbus police said in a statement.