(ProsperNews.net) – A police officer who shot and killed a woman a year ago in Ohio was just charged with murder by a grand jury.
On Wednesday, Aug. 14, a grand jury in Franklin County charged Connor Grubb, 29, of the Blendon Township Police Department (BTPD) with involuntary Manslaughter (two counts), murder (four counts), and felonious assault (four counts) for the shooting death of Ta’Kiya Young on Aug. 24, 2023. The 21-year-old from Columbus was also six months pregnant at the time and her unborn child did not survive the incident.
The shooting happened around 6:20 PM at 5991 S. Sunbury Road in a Kroger store parking lot. In a statement released by Blendon Township Chief of Police John Belford the day after the shooting, he claims a store employee approached two officers assisting someone in the parking lot having problems with their car and pointed out Young and several other individuals, accusing them of shoplifting.
Before officers could confront them, the other suspects drove away from the scene, but the police approached Young’s car – one moving in front of it and the other approaching the driver’s side. After telling her over a dozen times to stop and exit the vehicle, Young put it in gear and began to move forward when the officer in front of the car opened fire.
After that single shot through the windshield, the car continued moving forward as the officers pursued, going about 50 feet onto the nearby sidewalk before striking a wall of the store. The officers broke the driver’s side window and removed Young from the car to administer medical treatment. An emergency room doctor also happened to be in the parking lot during the incident and helped try to stabilize Young until the arrival of paramedics. Police were unaware that she was pregnant because she was already in her car when they confronted her.
Video of the shooting came out eight days later and showed Grubbs in front of Young’s car and the other officer asking her to exit the vehicle. At one moment, Young asks, “Are you going to shoot me?” after which the car moves forward slightly and Grubbs fires once at the windshield, which his attorneys argue was a split-second decision he had to make in the line of duty.
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