A coroner’s report released Thursday said Columbus police shot Colin Jennings three times, twice in the chest and once in the neck, while he suffered an apparent mental health crisis.
A Feb. 22 911 call from Jennings' boyfriend brought police to Creekside Place Apartments on North Nelson Road. Body camera footage showed Jennings outside the complex, walking toward two officers with a knife saying, “shoot me” and “I want to die.”
An officer holding a gun told the second officer to tase Jennings.
The two officers appeared to discharge their weapons at the same time as Jennings circled around a car the officers had been using as cover.
Jennings died later at a hospital.
Jennings did not have alcohol or mind-altering drugs in his system when he died, according to a toxicology report.
The names of the officers involved in the shooting have not been released.