Columbus officer on trial for 2020 shooting

[M-Quigley]

https://abcnews.go.com/US/former-ohio-p ... =115211311

Former police officer Adam Coy took the witness stand at his murder trial Monday and told a jury that he believed Andre Hill was about to shoot him with a silver revolver when he opened fire on the 47-year-old unarmed Black man in the dark garage of a Columbus, Ohio, home.

"I thought I was going to die," an emotional Coy, a former member of the Columbus Division of Police, testified about the fatal encounter with Hill on Dec. 22, 2020.

After firing four shots and approaching Hill, who lay bleeding to death on the floor of the garage, Coy said he searched for the gun he thought Hill was wielding only to find a large set of keys, an illuminated cell phone and a pack of cigarettes near his body.

[M-Quigley]

UPDATE: Columbus officer found guilty of murder, reckless homicide and felonious assault. He was a 17 year veteran of the Columbus PD at the time of the shooting

https://www.whio.com/news/local/jury-re ... G376KOEKM/

[Chuck]

Sentencing Nov 25