Police responded to a 4:32 p.m. name indicating “females were there trying to stab them and put their hands on them,” Columbus Interim Police Chief Michael Woods mentioned Tuesday night time.
Officials responded to the placement and, based on bodycam footage from the primary officer on scene, the officer approaches a gaggle of people within the driveway outdoors a house.
The video shows the 15-year-old shortly transfer towards one other girl with what seems to be knife and the girl falls to the bottom. The officer yells, “Hey, hey, hey, hey, Get down!” earlier than the 15-year-old seems to lunge at a second girl with the knife, based on the video.
The officer tells her to “Get Down! Get down! Get down! Get down!” and then fires 4 photographs within the course of the 15-year-old.
One officer attends to the capturing sufferer, who police are usually not figuring out. Officers assessed the lady for accidents and summoned a medic, as is protocol, Woods mentioned.
Police didn’t have any data on whether or not the 2 different people have been injured, Woods mentioned.
The officer will probably be taken off the road whereas an investigation by the Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) within the Ohio Attorney General’s Office takes place, Woods added. The investigation then goes to the Franklin County Grand Jury and then again to the police division for an inner evaluate, Woods mentioned.
“We know based on this footage, the officer took action to protect another young girl in our community,” Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther mentioned throughout the information convention. “But a family is grieving tonight and this young 15-year-old girl will never be coming home.”