COLUMBUS – A Delaware County grand jury declined to indict the police officers involved in a shooting on I-71, just north of Columbus, in March that left a man injured, according to a release from the office of Ohio attorney general Dave Yost.
Officers responded to 911 calls of a man walking in traffic on I-71 near Polaris Parkway on March 11 and three Columbus officers fired their weapons, striking Jonathan Myers once in the leg.
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, part of Yost’s office, was requested by the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office to investigate the shooting.
The bureau’s investigators interviewed Myers, the officers involved in the incident and civilian witnesses; reviewed footage from ODOT traffic cameras, cell phones and police dashboard and body-worn cameras; conducted forensic laboratory analysis and evaluated the training and personnel records of the officers.
The findings were referred to a special prosecutor from the Yost’s office, appointed by the Delaware County prosecutor to present the case to a grand jury.