Black Man Killed by Police While Entering Home in Columbus, OH
(CNN)The family of a Black man killed by police while entering his own home in Columbus, Ohio, last week, is asking for answers after the state’s criminal investigations bureau declined to look into the case due to a three-day delay in police calling for assistance.
Casey Goodson, 23, was fatally shot by a 17-year veteran of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, identified as deputy Jason Meade, working for the US Marshal’s fugitive task force looking for violent offenders Friday. The victim was not the person being sought by the US Marshal’s Task Force, Columbus Police said.
CNN reached out to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office for comment but has not yet heard back.
“At this point, witness testimony and physical evidence raise serious concerns about why Casey was even confronted, let alone why he was shot dead while entering his own home,” the family’s attorney, Sean Walton, told CNN.
Goodson had put his keys into his door before he was shot and fell into the kitchen, where his 5-year-old brother and his 72-year-old grandmother saw him lying on the ground with a Subway sandwich, Walton told CNN.
“Our demand is that the authorities provide the family with answers for Casey’s death and that the officer involved be held accountable. The family and the community demand swift justice for Casey Goodson.”
State agency won’t investigate
The Columbus Division of Police, which was not involved in the shooting, is investigating the incident.
Columbus Police announced Monday afternoon that the investigation into the fatal shooting had been turned over to the Ohio BCI at the request of Columbus Police Chief Thomas Quinlan.
But only an hour later BCI, the state agency that investigates police involved shootings, announced that they would not be able to accept the case.
SOURCE: cnn.com/2020/12/08/us/ohio-police-shooting-casey-goodson/index.html
Feds to investigate after a sheriff’s deputy killed a Black man entering his own home in Columbus, Ohio | 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. Casey Goodson, 23, was fatally shot on Friday by a 17-year veteran of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, identified as deputy Jason Meade.
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