COLUMBUS – The shooting deaths of Ma’Khia Bryant and Andrew Teague at the hands of law enforcement officers will be turned over to a Franklin County grand jury.
The announcement from the office of prosecutor Gary Tyack came hours after Ohio attorney general Dave Yost announced the completion of investigations into the incidents by the Bureau of Criminal Investigation.
The shooting of the 16-year-old Bryant matter is being assigned to two special prosecutors due to a conflict with Franklin County Children Services, Tyack said.
Bryant and her sister were in the agency’s custody when the April 21 shooting occurred and Tyack’s office serves as its legal counsel.
Teague was shot to death following a pursuit and wrong-way crash on the Southeast Side on March 8.
Cleveland officer cleared in shooting
Yost’s office says a grand jury has cleared a police officer who shot a Black man outside a public housing complex in Cleveland.
Senior Attorney General Anthony Pierson during a remote news conference Wednesday says the grand jury concluded that Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority officer James Griffiths used reasonable force when he fatally shot 19-year-old Arthur Keith last November.
Pierson says Keith pointed at a loaded handgun at Griffiths before being shot in the upper back.