BODY CAM: Police fatally shoot pregnant shoplifting suspect

Twenty-one-year-old Ta’Kiya Young died Thursday in Blendon, Ohio, outside Columbus, when police shot and killed her. Police Chief John Belford says the officers were at a supermarket on an unrelated matter when an employee told them people were trying to flee with stolen items. One officer went to the driver’s side of Young’s car and told her to stop, while the other moved in front of the vehicle. Belford says Young accelerated forward and the officer in front of the vehicle fired one shot through the front windshield, killing her.
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