An Ohio police officer was charged with murder Tuesday for shooting and killing a pregnant woman during a confrontation in a grocery store parking lot last August.
As Ta’Kiya Young sat in her car, Blendon Township police officer Connor Grubb and another officer approached her to accuse her of stealing from the store. In an interaction captured on body-camera footage, the officers ordered Young to exit her vehicle as she denied shoplifting. The car then began to move forward, and Grubb fired a shot that struck Young through her windshield, killing her and her unborn child.
Grubb faces two counts of murder and felonious assault each for the deaths of Young, 21, and her fetus, along with two counts of involuntary manslaughter related to the death of the fetus. Felonious assault is sometimes called “felony murder.”
On Aug. 24, an employee of a Kroger grocery store in Westerville, Ohio, told Grubb and the other officer, who has not been identified, that Young had stolen bottles of alcohol and then gotten into a car.
Body-camera footage shows the other officer repeatedly asking Young to exit the vehicle as Grubb moves to stand in front of it. Young can be heard saying no and denying that she stole anything.
Then Young turned the car’s steering wheel and the vehicle moved forward, the video shows. Grubb, who was standing in front of the car with his gun drawn, fired a shot into the windshield, striking Young.
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