Franklin County grand jury votes to not indict police officers in July 2023 fatal shooting
A Franklin County grand jury has voted not to indict law enforcement officers involved in the July 2023 shooting death of Antwan Lindsey, the county prosecutor's office announced Monday.
Lindsey, 45, was killed July 8, 2023, in a shootout with a Franklin County deputy and a Columbus police officer on the city's East Side, The Dispatch previously reported from what authorities said occurred. Body camera footage from a sheriff's deputy who was working a special assignment at the Walgreens store at 3015 E. Livingston Ave., shows a man telling the deputy he was concerned about another man — later identified to be Antwan Lindsey — upset about his car being towed and acting erratically.
The deputy told the man to call 911 because it was Columbus police's jurisdiction, according to the body camera footage. But when the reporting person said Lindsey had a gun and was firing shots, the deputy headed to his cruiser. As he walked outside, two booms are heard in the distance, which the deputy recognized as gunshots.
He radioed for dispatchers to call Columbus police and drove a short distance away to the Bexley Commons Apartments on the 3100 block of East Livingston Avenue.
The deputy parked his cruiser in a driveway area of the apartment building, and as he got out, more gunshots are heard. The deputy radioed in that he was coming under fire. Lindsey was standing near the entrance of an apartment building at the time the deputy arrived, and is seen on body camera going inside.
Multiple people in the doorway of another apartment building are seen watching as the deputy tells Lindsey to put his hands up while the deputy takes cover and tries to clear a jam or malfunction in his handgun.
The deputy's cruiser camera shows about a dozen Columbus police officers arriving at the building, checking different parts of the apartment building and asking the deputy if he had been shot.
Police body camera footage from the ensuing confrontation with Lindsey in the basement stairwell landing of an apartment building showed Lindsey was asked 32 times to put his hands up but did not comply. Body camera footage also shows another officer attempting to tase Lindsey and missing.
Lindsey appears to have his left hand holding a hallway door open, and his right hand is not visible. A handgun is seen next to his left foot as officers repeatedly tell him to put his hands up.
An autopsy report by the Franklin County Coroner's Office found that Lindsey was shot 15 times in the head, chest, arms and legs by law enforcement.
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This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Franklin County grand jury decides to not indict officers in fatal shooting
