Authorities in Ohio say they will release body camera footage of a fatal police shooting of a pregnant Black woman
COLUMBUS, Ohio --
Suspected of shoplifting, police say Young was killed after she accelerated her car toward an officer. The police chief gave a brief account of the shooting in an Aug. 25 video statement in which he said two officers were helping someone get into a locked car when a supermarket employee told them several people were leaving with stolen items.
Young was expected to give birth to a daughter in November. She also was the mother of two young sons, ages 6 and 3. An online effort to pay her funeral expenses has raised nearly $7,000.
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