Overview
- Newly released body-camera footage shows an Akron officer yelling commands, then firing multiple rounds less than 25 seconds after first contact with Corey Phillips.
- The video shows officers searching Phillips after he was shot but does not show a firearm being recovered.
- Mayor Shammas Malik said the city’s current understanding is that Phillips did not have a gun on his person when he encountered officers.
- The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is leading the probe, the officer is on paid administrative leave, and the case will go to the Ohio Attorney General’s Office and potentially a Summit County grand jury.
- Phillips, 36, remains hospitalized, while 911 calls and witness accounts conflict over whether he had a handgun before police arrived.