Tweet Facebook Mail A US police officer has been indicted on murder and other charges over the shooting of Ta'Kiya Young, a 21-year-old pregnant Black mother who was killed after being accused of shoplifting last August in Ohio. Young was suspected of stealing bottles of alcohol when Blendon Township police officer Connor Grubb and a fellow officer approached her car. The other officer ordered her out.
Instead, she rolled forward toward Grubb, who fired a single bullet through her windshield into her chest. The daughter she was expecting three months later also died. A Franklin County grand jury on Tuesday (early Wednesday AEST) indicted Grubb on charges of murder, involuntary manslaughter and felonious assault.
He is scheduled to be arraigned in court on Wednesday. A warrant for his arrest was issued as part of the indictment. READ MORE: Murder investigation launched after girl, 10, found dead on Gold Coast Police bodycam vision shows an officer pointing his gun at Ta'Kiya Young moments before shooting her through the windshield outside a grocery store in Blendon Township, Ohio.
(Blendon Township Police via AP, File) Brian Steel, executive vice president of the union representing Blendon Township police, called the indictment deeply disappointing. "Like all law enforcement officers, Officer Grubb had to make a split-second decision, a reality all too familiar for those who protect our communities," he said in a statement. Young's grandmother, Nadine Young, said the officer n.