Officers who arranged for a man to be hospitalized in an emergency have found a gun in his waistband that sparked a fight over the weapon and that officers killed him, according to footage from the body known Wednesday. was made.
Officers searched Miles Jackson, a black man, at the hospital on Monday in preparation for an exchange of oversight over the warrants he had for his arrest. Jackson began struggling with the two officers after one of them felt the gun, the video showed.
One of the officers used a shotgun on Jackson after they fell to the floor, while the other one tried to pull Jackson’s hands away from his waistband. A shot can then be heard in the video, apparently from the gun in Jackson’s waistband.
The officer who stunned Jackson took cover outside the room. The other officer apparently opened fire on Jackson once before being covered behind a hospital bed, a video showed.
Officers shouted at Jackson, 27, for minutes to raise his hands and sit on his head. Finally, an officer used a stun gun for a second time on Jackson, who was on his side on the floor of the hospital. Another shot could be heard in the video before officers opened fire.
Jackson died in the shooting at Mount Carmel St. Ann’s Hospital in suburban Columbus.
Jackson was apparently taken to the hospital earlier in the day, walked away and then found in a nearby bank parking lot. Before Jackson was taken back to the hospital, a Westerville officer briefly tapped him, according to footage from the officer’s body camera video.
“I’ll just put you down quickly, make sure you have nothing on you, or no weapons, and nothing else?” said the officer. Jackson repeatedly asked for a cigarette, saying he was anxious.
Columbus police were called to the hospital because Jackson had outstanding warrants in the city.
Once Jackson was in a room in the hospital’s emergency room, an officer briefly handcuffed his left hand to the hospital bed. A few minutes later, an officer removed the handcuffs and began collecting Jackson’s property.
“You do not have anything sharp in your pockets, do you?” asked the officer. “Hopefully someone would have caught it sooner.” About a minute later, a bullet fell from Jackson’s pants.
“Uh Oh. Got a little bullet action,” the officer said calmly as he picked it up. “Don’t see people carrying people every day.”
Within the next minute, the officer told his fellow officer to hold Jackson’s arm around him. “He has a gun,” the officer said.
In about three minutes, officers outside the room shouted dozens of commands at Jackson lying on the floor to place his right hand over his head with his left hand. One Columbus officer was still in the room, behind the bed, with his gun in the direction of Jackson, the video shows.
“I’m just scared, guys,” Jackson said at one point. He later said: ‘If I move, you will not shoot me. They’re not going to shoot me? “He also told officers he was not going to do anything and that he was leaning on his right hand.
A police officer again ordered Jackson to raise his right hand.
Put your right hand slowly in the air. Slowly, ”she said. When Jackson said he was putting down the gun, the officer replied, ‘Do not touch the gun. Release the gun and put both your hands over your head. ”
The video showed that the second use of the shotgun, the shot and then the police shooting broke out within seconds of her order.
Westerville’s police chief placed the two officers who initially came in contact with Jackson on administrative leave. He told residents “if policy violations are found, there will be an appropriate level of accountability”.
Westerville officers Eric Everhart and David Lammert, who are both white, will be on leave while an internal investigation into the shooting is conducted, the department said. But the investigation’s investigation could not overlap or interfere with the independent investigation that Attorney General Dave Yost is doing, Charles said. It will therefore wait until it is completed.
Columbus police identified the officers in the shooting as Andrew Howe and Ryan Krichbaum, both 15-year veterans of the agency.
Emergency personnel tried to revive Jackson. He was pronounced dead at the hospital, authorities said. No officers, hospital staff or doctors were injured, officials said.