The death of Casey Goodson, a Black man killed Friday by a Franklin County sheriff’s deputy in Columbus, Ohio, has been ruled a homicide, according to a statement from Franklin County Coroner Dr. Anahi Ortiz.
The preliminary findings come five days after Goodson, 23, was shot under disputed circumstances. Law enforcement officials have said Goodson was waving a gun when a deputy shot him, but the man’s family says that he was carrying a sandwich bag and had just unlocked the door to his own home.
“Based on findings from the autopsy and medical death investigation, manner of death is homicide,” Ortiz’s office wrote in a press release Wednesday morning.
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