COLUMBUS, Ohio — A new witness who came forward during the murder trial of a former Ohio sheriff's deputy testified Tuesday that he saw the man who was killed not long before the shooting but that he didn't see a gun, leaving the defendant as the only person saying that Casey Goodson Jr. was armed. Christopher Corne, who works for …
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Casey Goodson Jr., a Black man, was shot five times in the back by a white Ohio sheriff’s deputy last December, according to a final coroner’s report released Thursday. The final autopsy confirmed statements previously made by Goodson’s family that the 23-year-old died after former Franklin County sheriff’s deputy Jason Meade shot him multiple times in the …
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A preliminary autopsy report of a Black man killed by an Ohio deputy last week showed clear signs of him being shot in the back multiple times, an attorney for the victim’s family said Thursday. “Casey was just someone who was killed on his kitchen floor simply because he was a Black man and his skin was …
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The mother of a Black man shot by an Ohio sheriff’s deputy demanded answers Wednesday to her son’s death, saying he’d done nothing wrong and was returning from the dentist with sandwiches for his family when he was killed. Tamala Payne said she wants the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office deputy involved be jailed and said she’ll never …
Federal authorities have launched an investigation into the police shooting of a 23-year-old Black man, who was killed last week as he entered his Columbus, Ohio, home with sandwiches for his family. Last Friday afternoon, Franklin County Sheriff’s Deputy Jason Meade was working for the US Marshals Service helping search for a fugitive when he saw a man with a …
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. …
