And this young, 15-year-old girl will never be coming home.” We know based on this footage the officer took action to protect another young girl in our community,” he said. “The city of Columbus lost a 15-year-old girl today. He added he felt grief about what happened as a father. Mayor Andrew Ginther on Tuesday told reporters the city would be providing as much information as quickly as it could while protecting the independence of the state investigation. Once that concludes, Woods said his department will also review officers' actions at the scene. Ohio's Bureau of Criminal Investigation is now conducting a criminal investigation into what happened. Woods said Tuesday night that he did not have information that anyone else at the scene had been injured.

The bodycam video showed police rendering first aid. Video shared on social media showed a person wearing jeans and brightly colored shoes lying in the street at the feet of a police officer. The girl's mother, Paula Bryant, told reporters her daughter was an honor-roll student and a sweet kid. She didn’t deserve to die like a dog in the street.” According to the Daily Beast, the girl's aunt said the teen called police, as well as her father and grandmother, for help and grabbed a knife to defend herself. The girl was 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant, the Columbus Dispatch reported, citing Franklin County Children's Services, which told the Dispatch that Bryant lived in a foster home.Ī woman who identified herself as the girl's aunt, Hazel Bryant, told reporters earlier in the evening that her niece got into an altercation with someone else at the foster home, the Dispatch reported. 'She's a fucking kid, man,' a man replied. The girl slumped to the ground, and the people around her erupted in screams. The officer yelled 'get down, get down' multiple times, then fired four gunshots - just 10 seconds after he got out of his police car. In it, a knife is visible in the girl's hand. At a news conference Tuesday night, interim police Chief Michael Woods showed a slowed-down version of some of the footage.

As the officer asked what was going on, one girl pushed another to the ground, then pushed another against a car.

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