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Officer says Adam Coy yelled there’s a gun in his other hand before shooting Andre Hill
The city fired Officer Adam Coy finding that the “known facts do not establish that this use of deadly force was objectively reasonable.” Author: Bennett Haeberle Updated: 11:03 PM EST December 29, 2020
COLUMBUS, Ohio The second Columbus police officer who responded to a non-emergency call with Officer Adam Coy told investigators that she did not “observe any threats from” Andre Hill and “did not see a weapon” but could not see his right side before Coy opened fire.
Officer Amy Detweiler told investigators with the internal affairs unit of the Columbus Division of Police that Coy yelled “there’s a gun in his other hand, there’s a gun in his other hand.”
Second Ohio officer on the scene of fatal Andre Hill shooting said she did not observe any threat or see him with a gun before he was killed by her colleague
Columbus police officer Amy Detweiler said she did not observe any threats before her colleague Adam Coy fatally shot 47-year-old Andre Hill
Hill, who is black, died on December 22 after white officer Coy opened fire, claiming he believed Hill was holding a gun
Yet Detweiler s report from the scene says she didn t see Hill with a gun
Detweiler didn t see any interaction between Hill and Coy
She said when she arrived, she and Coy called on Hill to emerge from a garage and Coy began to yell that he had a firearm
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Coy and another officer, identified as Amy Detweiler, were responding to a non-emergency call on December 22 when they encountered Hill in an Oberlin Drive garage. Coy was fired Monday by Columbus Public Safety Director Ned Pettus for his unreasonable use of force, failure to activate his body camera and failure to administer first aid.
In an interview with investigators, Detweiler says Coy initially asked Hill to exit the garage in a normal tone of voice, and then shouted that Hill had a gun in the moments before pulling the trigger. Hill was in fact unarmed, and held a cell phone in his left hand.
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Officer fired in fatal shooting of Andre Hill
Adam Coy was terminated by the Columbus Police Department for unreasonable use of force, not turning on his body camera and not rendering aid to Hill while he was dying.Andre Hill/Facebook
The Columbus, Ohio, public safety director has decided to terminate Columbus police officer Adam Coy after Coy shot and killed Andre Hill, a Black man, last week.
In a Monday ruling, Public Safety Director Ned Pettus Jr. wrote that known facts do not establish that this use of deadly force was objectively reasonable.