The US police have shot dead an unarmed black man in Columbus, Ohio. A few months ago, a young man named George Floyd was brutally murdered.
Protests erupted across the United States over the death. A large part of the people of the country joined in the protest on Thursday against the murder of this black youth. Police have killed two blacks this month.
Early Tuesday morning, Coy shot and killed 47-year-old Andre Maurice Hill at a home on the 1000 block of Oberlin Drive where he was visiting, police said.
Hill was shot by Coy after officers responded to a non-emergency disturbance complaint from a neighbor at 1:37 a.m. Tuesday about a person sitting in an SUV and turning its engine on and off repeatedly, police said.
According to previous reporting by The Dispatch, Coy had nine complaints filed against him in 2003, four of those coming in a one-month period. Coy received written counseling, The Dispatch reported at the time.
A small set of candles adorn a sidewalk on Oberlin Drive on the Northwest Side Wednesday, near the site of Tuesday’s fatal police shooting of Andre Maurice Hill.
According to reports from The Dispatch, a cruiser camera showed Coy “banging the driver’s head into the hood four times during the arrest.” His actions were deemed “excessive for the situation.” Coy was suspended for 160 hours for that incident.
Police said Coy has been relieved of duty pending the outcome of investigations into Tuesday’s shooting. The Dispatch has requested a copy of Coy’s latest personnel file from the Division of Police.
Coy could not be reached for comment Wednesday. His two-story home in Union County is decorated for Christmas, but now has a store-bought “No Trespassing” sign taped to the front door. Neighbors did not respond to knocks at their doors by The Dispatch, and the only nearby neighbor outside shooed a reporter away.
