COLUMBUS – The autopsy report for Andre Hill, a 47-year-old unarmed black man who was shot dead by a former Columbus police officer. shows Hill was shot four times.
The autopsy report released on Friday shows Hill was hit twice in the chest in the right thigh and one more time in the right leg. The manner of his death was a murder, as the autopsy found, as previously decided.
Hill was shot dead in the garage of a house on the northwest side of Adam Coy at around 1:50 am on December 22nd. Police responded to a no-911 call when the shooting occurred. Coy and officer Amy Detweiler, who replied with Coy, had no body cameras on at the time of the shooting.
Your cameras recorded 60 seconds of video but no audio, so the recording was visible. Additional footage showed Hill had received no medical attention for more than 10 minutes after he was shot. Hill died in a nearby hospital about 30 minutes after the shooting.
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Hill died within seconds to minutes, according to the autopsy report from the Franklin County’s Coroner Bureau.
Michael Wright, a Dayton attorney who represents Hill’s family, said the autopsy results showed that Hill “suffered tremendously.”
“The autopsy is troubling to the family,” he said. “It shows that he died a painful death.”
The autopsy report said the wound that was most significant penetrated Hill’s left chest area, causing damage to the chest, liver, stomach, pancreas, and aorta. According to the report, nearly two liters of blood were found in Hill’s abdominal cavity and pelvic area during the autopsy.
A toxicological report completed during the autopsy showed that Hill had THC and evidence of cannabis use in his system. He also had a blood alcohol level of 0.013%, well below the 0.08% level at which one is considered impaired in Ohio.
Coy was fired less than a week after the shooting and has since been charged on charges of Murder, assault and neglect of duty. He posted one $ 1 million bond in the casewhich is pending in the Franklin County Common Pleas Court.
Coy’s next court date is not planned and a court case is not expected to take place until 2022. The Ohio Attorney General handles law enforcement.
The case fell under the jurisdiction of the Franklin County Attorney’s Office, which called Yost as special attorney as the prosecutor went through a change of leadership around the New Year. The Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation also investigated the shooting, in accordance with city police involved shootings policy.
Coy’s attorney, Mark Collins, said Coy gave investigators a more than two-hour interview and believed a silver keyring in Hill’s right hand was a revolver.
“The Supreme Court has stated that officials are allowed to make mistakes if the mistake is reasonable through the lens of a sensible police officer,” Collins previously told The Dispatch, part of the USA TODAY Network. “Adam Coy was wrong. He thought the keys were a revolver and he reacted based on his training.”
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