Updated: 7:49 PM EDT May 22, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio The Millennium Movement, an organization for justice, put together an event for Andre’ Hill, the man who was fatally shot by a now-former Columbus police officer last December.
Hill’s family, friends and community members gathered on Brentnell Avenue to honor him and his birthday.
He would’ve turned 48 on Sunday, May 23.
Organizer LaToya Gibson said it was a day of celebration, with no protests, just another day of keeping his name alive.
“We’re here dedicating the No More Names, Last Stand Community Park and Prayer Creek, in honor of Mr. Andre Hill’. We’re just basically out here trying to celebrate his life with the family, good clean fun,” Gibson said.
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Columbus reaches record-breaking $10 million settlement with family of Andre Hill who was shot dead by police officer as he emerged from friend s home holding a phone
Ohio s capital agreed to pay Andre Hill s family $10 million settlement, the largest of its kind in city history
Hill, 47, an unarmed black man, was shot and killed by Columbus police officer Adam Coy in December
Coy was fired and charged with murder, felonious assault and reckless homicide
Bodycam video showed Coy open fire on Hill as he emerged from friend s garage holding a cellphone in his hand
Coy s attorney said officer believed he saw a gun in Hill s hand, but no firearm was found at the scene
City of Columbus will pay $10 million settlement to family of Andre Hill, unarmed Black man shot dead by police
May 14, 2021 / 1:58 PM / CBS/AP Officer to be arraigned in Andre Hill s death
Ohio s capital city will pay a $10 million settlement to 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.
The City Council is expected to vote on the settlement Monday, reports CBS station WBNS. It would be the largest such settlement in city history.
Obbie Shepard, 21, died on Aug. 26, 2011.
He died five years before Tyre King and Henry Green were killed by Columbus police, three years before the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and six months before the killing of Trayvon Martin in Florida, a case that would go on to inspire the Black Lives Matter movement.
At the time Shepard died, Columbus police did not wear body cameras. No bystander video ever surfaced and went viral. There was a brief public outcry in the South Side neighborhood where he died, but nothing close to the sustained protests that flared in Ferguson in 2014 or rippled across the U.S. after Floyd s death last May.