Police release video from Ohio shooting
Police in Akron, Ohio, released multiple bodycam videos of events leading up to and including the shooting of 25-year-old Jayland Walker last week. Elise Preston reports.
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Police in Akron, Ohio, released multiple bodycam videos of events leading up to and including the shooting of 25-year-old Jayland Walker last week. Elise Preston reports.
Akron police chief Steve Mylett wrote in an internal review that the shooting of 25-year-old Black man Jayland Walker in June 2022, "while certainly tragic," was "objectively reasonable."
An Ohio grand jury decided not to charge eight Akron police officers in the shooting death of Jayland Walker in 2022. Lilia Luciano reports.
An Ohio grand jury has decided not to indict police officers in Akron for the fatal shooting of Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man, last year, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced Monday. Walker was killed by police after fleeing a traffic stop in June.
Jayland Walker was killed by police after fleeing a traffic stop in June.
Protests bubbled over Sunday night following the release of police body cam footage showing the pursuit and killing of 25-year-old Jayland Walker after a traffic stop. Walker, a Black man, was shot up to 60 times by police after what Akron, Ohio police say was a car chase and then foot pursuit. CBS News correspondent Elise Preston joins Anne-Marie Green from Akron, Ohio, with a detailed report.
Officials in Akron, Ohio have lifted the city's curfew after days of protest over the police killing of an unarmed black man. Jayland Walker was shot more than 60 times after fleeing from a traffic stop. CBS News correspondent Elise Preston has the latest on the investigation and how Walker's family is reacting to his death.
Jayland Walker, a Black man killed by police in Akron, Ohio, was shot more than 40 times, according to a preliminary autopsy report released by the medical examiner's office in Summit County.