Police body-camera video captures fatal shooting at Ohio hospital

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Police body-camera video appears to show officers struggling for a gun moments before a man was fatally shot in the emergency room of an Ohio hospital.

The footage was released after Miles Jackson, 27, was fatally shot Monday at Mount Carmel St. Ann’s Hospital in Westerville. The incident involved officers from Westerville and Columbus.

Miles Jackson is captured in bodycam footage during his arrest at St Ann's hospital in Columbus, Ohio on Monday April 12, 2021.The second officer uses his stun gun on Jackson, causing him to scream out in pain and fall to the ground. As the three men scuffle, a shot is fired. An officer standing in the hallway uses a Taser on Jackson. A shot is heard seconds later, followed by a series of gunshots. Officers immediately enter the room and call for a doctor. After Jackson is removed from the room, the body-camera video shows what appears to be a gun on the floor covered in blood.

Westerville Police Chief Charles Chandler said that two of his officers, Eric Everhart and David Lammert, initially encountered Jackson in a parking lot near the hospital. They have been placed on administrative leave while an internal investigation is conducted into the emergency room shooting.

 

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