A special grand jury in Ohio will begin hearing evidence this week to determine whether charges should be filed against 8 officers who shot Jayland Walker nearly four dozen times last year.
At one point, the officers appeared to stop running. A hail of police gunfire is heard in the video. Walker was pronounced dead at the scene.
A protester stands in front of troopers in riot gear as police deploy tear gas and stun grenades to clear the area around Akron City Hall on July 3.Summit County Medical Examiner Lisa Kohler said in July that Walker had. He died of blood loss from internal injuries caused by gunshot wounds. Kohler ruled his death a homicide.
"There are 46 entrance wounds. There are 15 exit wounds, and five of the wounds that would be in with the entrances are graze wounds," Kohler said at the time, calling his injuries"devastating."Five shots entered his back, the medical examiner said, but it could not be determined if that was when he was running away or simply moving his body.
"Officers reasonably believed that Mr. Walker presented an immediate threat of serious physical harm or death and lawfully ... discharged their weapons," the statement said.In the months before he was killed, Walker had been trying to move on from the death of his fiancée, Jaymeisha Beasley. The two started dating when they were 15 and had gotten engaged about a year before Walker's death, Beasley's mother, Shalesa Beasley, said.
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