COLUMBUS – The Franklin County Coroner’s Office has released autopsy results in the case of a 16-year-old girl shot and killed by a Columbus police earlier this year.
Ma’Khia Bryant was shot in April by Columbus police officer Nicholas Reardon as she swung a knife at a young woman.
Bryant was Black and Reardon is white.
Police were responding to a 911 call made from Bryant’s foster home about a group of girls threatening to stab members of the household.
The report from the office of Dr. Anahi Ortiz confirms initial accounts that Bryant was shot four times and died from those injuries.
The case was turned over to special prosecutors because Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney Gary Tyack serves as legal counsel for Franklin County Children Services, which had custody of Ma’Khia and her sister at the time of the shooting.