Blendon Township Police

A jury is now deliberating in the murder trial of Blendon Township Police Officer Connor Grubb, who fatally shot 21-year-old Ta'Kiya Young in 2023.

Blendon Township Police Officer Connor Grubb's defense team called former Akron Police Officer and use of force expert Kevin Davis to testify. Special prosecutors called their own use of force expert, Seth Stoughton, a University of South Carolina policing and public safety professor to testify at the trial.

The final three witnesses to testify in the first week of Blendon Township Police Officer Connor Grubb's murder trial included Grubb's partner that day, Sgt. Erik Moynihan and two expert witnesses.

Blendon Township Police Officer Connor Grubb has not spoken publicly since he shot and killed 21-year-old Ta'Kiya Young in Aug. 2023.

Blendon Township police officer Connor Grubb was charged after he shot and killed 21-year-old Ta'Kiya Young.

Defense lawyers for Blendon Township Police Officer Connor Grubb and special prosecutors gave their opening statements Wednesday. Grubb is charged with murder after he shot and killed a pregnant woman in August 2023.

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By noon, the special prosecutors from Montgomery County and defense lawyers for Blendon Township Police officer Connor Grubb got through over a dozen potential jurors. They have to sort through about 90 in the jury pool before opening arguments begin.

Ta'Kiya Young was shot and killed by Blendon Township police officer Connor Grubb in Aug. 2023 in a car in a Kroger parking lot. Grubb has been charged with murder.

Blendon Township police officer Connor Grubb has been charged with murder in the Aug. 2023 shooting death of Ta'Kiya Young, 21, in a Kroger store parking lot.