The family has said Goodson had a sandwich, not a gun, in his hand.Įven if Goodson had been carrying a gun, the family reiterated, he had a license to do so. One witness heard Meade command the victim to drop his gun, and when he didn’t, the deputy shot him, Tobin said after the shooting. Marshal Peter Tobin has said that on the day of the shooting, Meade confronted the victim outside his home after Goodson, who was not the subject of the fugitive search, drove by and waved a gun at Meade. 4 while Meade, a 17-year veteran of the sheriff's office, was finishing up an unsuccessful search for a fugitive as part of a U.S. The shooting took place in Columbus on Dec. The Franklin County coroner listed the cause of death as a homicide - a medical determination used in cases where someone has died at someone else’s hand, but not a legal finding.
"Jason Meade is a threat to the community and public safety each and every day that he continues to be free,” he added. “This family and this city have been through enough trauma and our healing cannot begin until Meade is held accountable for this heinous act," Sean Walton, one of the attorneys for Goodson’s family, said in a statement Wednesday night.
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