An Ohio police officer was charged on Tuesday in the shooting of 21 Year-Old Ta’Kiya Young, a pregnant Black mother who was killed after being accused of shoplifting last August.
Young was suspected of stealing bottles of alcohol when officers Blendon Township and Connor Grubb approached her car. The other officer ordered her out. Instead, she rolled forward toward Grubb, who fired a single bullet through her windshield into her chest.
Bodycam footage shows an officer approaching a car with Young in the driver’s seat.
“Out of the car,” an officer says a few times.
“For what?” Young asks.
“They said you stole stuff…..Do not leave,” he responds.
A second officer then stands in front of Young’s car, puts his hand on the hood and eventually points his gun at her through the front windshield.
A grand jury indicted Grubb on charges of murder, involuntary manslaughter and felonious assault. He is scheduled to be arraigned in court Wednesday. A warrant for his arrest was issued as part of the indictment.
The officer never should have pulled his gun when he first confronted her “Young’s grandmother said”.
Family members called for the officer to be charged shortly after the Aug. 24 shooting. After viewing bodycam footage showing the officer firing the gun, the family called his actions a “gross misuse of power and authority,” especially given that Young had been accused of a relatively minor crime.
Grubb faces 4 counts of murder, 4 counts of felonious assault and 2 counts of involuntary manslaughter as a result of a grand jury indictment, his arraignment has been scheduled for Wednesday at 1 p.m.
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