A Franklin County grand jury declined to indict a Columbus officer and a Franklin County deputy for a fatal 2021 shootout with Andrew Teague on I-270.
Columbus police officer John Kifer shot at suspect Andrew Teague on Friday afternoon, killing him. Teague had been in a crash in Interstate 270.A Franklin County grand jury on Wednesday issued a"no-bill" decision, declining to indict two law enforcement officers involved in the fatal shooting last year of a man who exchanged gunfire with them after a chase and wrong-way, head-on crash on Interstate 270.
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigations investigated the shooting and sent its case findings to Franklin County Prosecutor's office in July 2021. As has been standard practice for years in fatal shootings involving law enforcement officers, county prosecutors present the case findings to a county grand jury for consideration.According to court records, Teague had been suspected of firing more than a dozen gunshots at his brother on Feb.
Teague climbed out of the driver’s side window holding a firearm and began walking along the berm. He fired multiple shots toward approaching law enforcement officers responding to the crash, investigators and prosecutors said. Records from the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction show that at the time of the fatal shootout, Teague also was wanted for being a parole violator at-large. Teague had served eight years in prison after being convicted of multiple counts of felonious assault in 2010.According to The Dispatch's archives, Kifer had previously been involved in a shooting in 2008 in which no one was struck. Kifer was cleared of any wrongdoing by the Division of Police.
Before Franklin County Prosecutor Gary Tyack's office issued a release Wednesday publicly confirming the grand jury's decision , Republican U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Vance, who appeared Wednesday at a Fraternal Order of Police event in Columbus, spoke about the grand jury decision and congratulated the two law enforcement officers.
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