Copley Officer Cleared in Fatal Shooting
Officer Ben Campbell shot and killed Michael Hance after a shooting rampage that killed seven and critically injured one.
Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh has cleared Copley Police Officer Ben Campbell in the shooting death of Michael Hance. According to a news release: Walsh concluded that Officer Campbell did not violate any Ohio statutes or federal laws, as he had reason to believe Hance posed an immediate threat to himself and others. The U.S. Supreme court has affirmed that police officers have a constitutional right to use deadly force when they think a suspect will cause serious physical harm to another person. Officer Campbell had a reasonable and justifiable belief that Hance would continue to shoot at people after Hance shot eight people and then refused to comply with police officers’ verbal commands to drop his weapon and surrender. …
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