A funeral service is scheduled today for Jayland Walker, the 25-year-old Black man killed in a hail of police gunfire in Akron, Ohio, which declared a citywide day of mourning after days of protests over his death.
He wasn't armed when he was shot, but authorities said Walker had fired a shot from his car 40 seconds into the chase. Police body camera footage released by the city on July 3 shows Walker wearing a ski mask, jumping out the front passenger door of his still-moving car and then running into a parking lot.
Walker did not have a gun when he was killed. Akron police released a photo that showed an unloaded handgun, an ammunition clip and what appeared to be a wedding ring on the driver's seat of Walker's car. Less than 24 hours earlier, an officer in nearby New Franklin Township had tried to stop a car believed to be Walker's for the same equipment violations that led to the Akron chase. A police supervisor called off the pursuit when the driver crossed the township border into Akron.
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