COLUMBUS – Police say they have linked a man killed by police and security officers in a hospital emergency room in 2021 to a murder committed two days earlier.
Miles Jackson was shot by Columbus police officers and Mount Carmel Saint Ann’s hospital security officers on April 12, 2021, after a struggle that began when Columbus officers discovered Jackson had a gun concealed in his sweatpants.
Jackson, 27, had been arrested by Westerville police on outstanding warrants and taken to the hospital for medical treatment, according to police and prosecutors.
A grand jury decided last month not to indict the police officers or security personnel in connection with the incident.
The gun Jackson fired at officers was forensically tested and determined to be the same firearm responsible for the shooting death of a 47-year-old man two days before.
On April 10, Columbus police officers who went to check on the well-being of the resident of an apartment at 2853 Cleveland Avenue found the apartment open and Ticardo Williams’s body inside, detectives said.
Police detected signs of foul play and announced on Tuesday that blood found on an interior doorknob, as well as DNA recovered from Williams’s cane, was linked to Jackson, police said.