The family of Ta'Kiya Young is asking a judge not to try Blendon Township police officer Connor Grubb in a different county.
Grubb is charged with murder in the shooting and killing Young and her unborn child in a car outside a Kroger store on South Sunbury Road in August 2023.
Grubb's defense team last month asked the Franklin County judge to move the trial.
In a hearing Monday, the defense team argued the case has received too much publicity, and that so many police shootings and police-shooting trials have happened in Franklin County that a jury pool won't be able to keep them straight.
They said they may seek a bench trial.
Prosecutors said even if the judge were to move the trial, it shouldn't be before they've questioned jurors first to verify the jury pool is tainted.
Attorney Elizabeth Well is representing Ta'Kiya Young's mother as a victim advocate. Well said if the trial is moved, it will make it hard for Nadine Young to attend.
"The family is very interested in being here to exercise their right to be present and to move the venue would make that impossible," Well said.
Grubb's defense team said the judge could move the trial to a nearby county. The judge is expected to issue a written decision before the trial is scheduled to begin in November.
