CNN — The Franklin County, Ohio, Prosecuting Attorney’s office announced Tuesday it filed the necessary documents to appoint two special prosecutors to assist in its investigation and prosecution involving the fatal shooting of Casey Goodson, Jr., and other cases involving law enforcement use of force. The office said the appointments “are the appropriate course of action given that the Franklin …
CNN — A Franklin County Sheriff’s Office deputy was in Columbus, Ohio, on December 4 looking for violent offenders. An attorney for Meade says Goodson pointed a gun at the deputy prior to the shooting, adding “there has been confirmation that our client gave verbal commands for Mr. Goodson to drop the gun.” Police have said no other officers witnessed …
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Civil rights and FBI investigators will help look into the fatal shooting by an Ohio sheriff’s deputy of a Black man whose family says that he was holding not a gun, but a sandwich, and that he was shot in front of two toddlers and his grandmother while inside his home, not outside it, as authorities assert. …
CNN — A sheriff’s deputy working for a fugitive task force shot and killed a Black man trying to enter his own home in Columbus, Ohio, last week in a case that is now being investigated by federal authorities. Meade was working for the US Marshal’s fugitive task force looking for violent offenders at the time, but Goodson was not …
