COLUMBUS – The Ohio attorney general has turned the results of a state investigation into the fatal police shooting of a Black man in a central Ohio hospital emergency room over to the Franklin County prosecutor to determine whether criminal charges would be filed against the officers involved.
Footage of the April 12 incident shows a routine police pat-down of Miles Jackson in the emergency room at Mount Carmel St. Ann’s Hospital erupt within minutes into a fatal shooting after the 27-year-old apparently fired a gun he had concealed in his possession.
The Bureau of Criminal Investigation, within Attorney General Dave Yost’s office, conducts investigations into officer-involved shooting incidents and submits the findings to the county prosecutor as a routine part of the procedure, to determine if charges should be filed.
Officers from the Columbus Division of Police, Westerville Division of Police and St. Ann’s Security Department were involved in the incident.