Ma’Khia’s mother says ‘beautiful baby’ has been ‘taken from me’ “She was fun,” Moore said of her young charge. Mourners paid their respects to Ma’Kiah, who, according to Moore, had been living at the house for only a couple of months. Balloons and flowers draped the side of a tree. Outside Moore’s home on Legion Lane, votive candles stretched onto the sidewalk Thursday. “I never in my worst nightmare would have thought it would ever come to this,” she said. Soon she started getting text messages from people saying, “I’m sorry.” When she got home, a police officer told her Ma’Khia had died. “She said they shot Ma’Kiah and I said, ‘Huh?’ It was just crazy.” Where are you? They’re going crazy,” Moore said the young woman told her. Moore said she received a frantic call from one of the former foster children, who is seen in police body camera footage wearing pink and recoiling as Ma’Khia lunges at her with a shimmering knife. “They argue all the time,” Moore recalled, “but I never thought it would escalate like that.” “You’re not the guardian of me,” Bryant replied, according to the story Moore said she was told. Moore relayed for CNN the story she said she was told by one of the girls in the house at the time. Woods said at the press conference that this was to comply with public-records laws requiring juveniles' faces to be obscured.Ĭity officials said they would be unable to release all the footage from the scene straight away, citing a pending review from Ohio's Bureau of Criminal Investigation, which is investigating the killing.Ma'Khia Bryant enjoyed music and cooking, her mother said. Two officers then move toward Bryant and call for medical support while people nearby can be heard yelling, "She's a f-ing kid, man" and "Are you stupid?" The entire incident occurs within the first 15 seconds of the video. A knife appears to drop next to her as she falls to the ground. The officer fires his weapon at Bryant four distinct shots can be heard. Within the first few seconds of their arrival, Bryant runs into the body camera's view and appears to push another girl to the ground.īryant then runs away from the officer whose camera is recording and appears to swing a knife at another girl standing by the hood of a car.
Warning: The video below contains graphic footage and strong language. The police arrived at the two-story home at 4:44 p.m., and the footage shows a group of six to eight people in front of the house. after receiving a call that several girls were fighting outside, interim police chief Michael Woods told reporters. Officers were dispatched to the Walnut Heights area or Columbus at 4:36 p.m. She was pronounced dead a little over half an hour later at a local hospital. The video showing the shooting of Ma'Khia Bryant was shown at a press conference Tuesday night. Police body-camera footage released after the fatal police shooting of a 16-year-old girl in Columbus, Ohio, show her running past an officer while holding what the police described as a knife. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. Courtesy of Columbus Police DepartmentĪ police officer in Columbus, Ohio, fatally shot Ma'Khia Bryant, 16, on Tuesday.īodycam footage shows her running toward two other girls as officers approached.Īn officer fired several shots at Bryant as she appeared to attack one of the girls. An image from body-camera footage showing Ma'Khia Bryant, 16, on the ground after being shot by a police officer in Columbus, Ohio, on April 20, 2021.
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