Speaking at a news conference hours after attending the funeral of another black man who was killed by Columbus police earlier this month, Mayor Andrew Ginther identified the man killed early Tuesday by police as Andre Maurice Hill, 47.
Ginther said Hill was an expected guest at the house where he was shot by an officer who was answering a call for non-emergency disorders.
Police said the caller, who has not been identified, reported that a man had been sitting in his SUV for an extended period of time, turning the engine on and off repeatedly.
Ginther identified the officer as Adam Coy and said that after reviewing Coy’s actions during the Tuesday morning incident, he determined the officer should be fired from the police department.
“After a further review of the incident, today I call for the immediate termination of Coy … who failed in two directives: not to turn on the camera carried by the body and not to offer assistance after the shooting and not to provide assistance,” dir Ginther.
CNN has contacted the Fraternal Order of the Lodge no. 9 of the capital city of the police, representing the officer.
Columbus Director of Public Safety Ned Pettus said by law Coy is a public employee and is entitled to due process, which he said would begin as soon as possible. Coy has been removed from his badge and firearm pending an independent investigation into the shooting.
Authorities are in the early stages of an investigation that has been handed over to the Ohio Attorney General and the State Office of Criminal Investigation.
In a statement Wednesday, Yost said the researchers “will conduct a thorough, independent and expert investigation: a search for the truth.”
“What we have now is an incomplete record,” Yost said in a statement. “We must allow the registration to be completed and the evidence to be collected. Only the truth (the whole truth and nothing else) will lead to justice.”
Officials have said Coy and another agent who answered the call were equipped with body cameras but did not turn them on until after the shooting. A feature of body-worn camera technology used by Columbus police provides a 60-second look back, but records no audio, officials said, adding that the agent’s camera eventually captured the video of the shooting, but there was no audio.
In all, Ginther said the researchers have a few minutes (five, maybe seven or eight) minutes on the camera carried by the body. He said Hill’s family reviewed images from the body worm’s camera Wednesday.
Ginther said he “had never seen camera footage carried by the body, where there was literally no attempt to revive and help this man, who had committed no crime and died.”
So far, authorities have offered few details of what happened during the meeting between police officers and Hill.
According to a statement released by the Columbus Department of Public Safety, police responded to a non-emergency call shortly after 1:37 p.m.
When police arrived at the house on the northwest side of town, they found an open garage door and a man inside, city officials said.
Police said camera footage images captured from the 60-second rear-view show Hill walking toward the officer with a cell phone in his left hand while his right hand is not visible.
Police said an officer fired the gun and hit Hill. He died at the hospital shortly before two-thirty in the morning. No weapons were recovered at the scene.
Because officers did not respond to an emergency, they did not operate the siren or lights on their car, so the camera on the police cruiser dashboard was not activated at any time during the response, officials said.
The U.S. District Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio said Wednesday that his office will review the shooting for possible violations of federal civil rights.
“As 2020 draws to a close, with the tragic succession of officer-related shootings that led to so many unforgettable hashtags, we are presented with another compelling example of why police reforms and a national standard for police behavior are so desperately needed. “. Crump said.
“We will not stop until we get justice for Andre,” he added.