‘Horrified’: White Ex-Ohio Officer Who ‘Thought He Was Going to Die’ Before Shooting Black Man Carrying Only a Cellphone and Keys Within Seconds of Encounter, Found Guilty of Murder

A former Ohio police officer who shot and killed a Black man after mistaking his keys for a gun has been found guilty of murder. The murder trial for Adam Coy came to a close on Monday after a jury convicted the former cop of murder, reckless homicide, and felonious assault in the death of 47-year-old Andre Hill. Adam Coy (left), has been convicted of murder for fatally shooting Andre Hill (right) in Columbus, Ohio, in December 2020. (Photos: 10TV News/ YouTube screenshot) Coy fatally shot Hill within seconds of an unarmed Hill emerging from a garage holding a set of keys in one hand and a cellphone in the other, in Columbus on Dec, 22, 2020. The ex-cop was called to a home about a suspicious vehicle parked on a street early that morning. He encountered Hill in the car and Hill told Coy that a friend was coming to meet him. Coy stayed to monitor the situation and saw Hill walk to a home, knock on the door, and enter the garage. Coy’s attorneys maintained that Coy followed him under the suspicion that Hill might have been trying to break in, but it was later revealed that the...