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Ta’Kiya Young had big plans for her growing family before police killed her in an Ohio parking lot

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Ta’Kiya Young had big plans for her growing family before police killed her in an Ohio parking lot

Ta’Kiya Young treated her two little boys like kings, dressing them sharply, letting them have too many sweets, cooking them big gourmet meals of T-bone steak with broccoli, cheese and rice.

The royal life also awaited her unborn daughter.

When Young found out she was pregnant with her third child — a girl — she was thrilled. The 21-year-old Ohio mom and aspiring social worker bought a stack of adorable onesies in anticipation of the baby’s arrival. She scheduled a photo shoot to show off her baby bump. She applied for public housing and looked forward to the day when she and her growing brood would have a place to call their own.

Instead, Young’s grieving family prepared for her funeral on Thursday, exactly two weeks after a police officer in the Columbus suburbs fatally shot her in her car in a supermarket parking lot.

Their Aug. 24 encounter, captured on police bodycam video released last week, was the latest in a troubling series of fatal shootings of Black adults and children by Ohio police, and followed various episodes of police brutality against Black people across the nation over the past several years. The confrontations have prompted widespread protests and demands for police reform.

Young’s family wants the officer who shot her to be immediately fired and charged in her death and the death of her unborn child. The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is leading the investigation.

Ahead of Young’s funeral in Columbus, her grandmother, Nadine Young, who helped raise her, recalled Ta’Kiya (tah-KEYE’-ah) as a high-spirited prankster and a popular, “fun-loving, feisty young lady” who nevertheless struggled with the sudden death of her own mother last year, and who was just beginning to find her way in life.

Now the family is focusing on Ta’Kiya’s sons, ages 6 and 3. The oldest, Ja’Kobie, talks about his mother. The youngest, Ja’Kenlie, doesn’t quite understand she’s gone.

“We just show them a whole lot of love and let them know they’ve got a little village surrounding them and loving on them,” Nadine Young, accompanied by family attorney Sean Walton, said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Young said the video of Ta’Kiya’s violent death was heart-wrenching to watch, the shooting “void of any humanity or decency at all.”

In the video, an officer at the driver’s side window tells Ta’Kiya she’s been accused of shoplifting and orders her out of the car, while a second officer stands in front of the car. Young protests, both officers curse at her and yell at her to get out, and Young can be heard asking them, “Are you going to shoot me?”

Seconds later, she turns the steering wheel to the right, the car rolls slowly toward the officer standing in front of it, and the officer fires his gun through the windshield.

Nadine Young said she believes her granddaughter feared for her safety.

“I believe he was a bully,” she told a news conference on Wednesday, referring to the officer who shot Ta’Kiya. “He came at her like a bully, and that scared her with that baby in her stomach. She’s like scared, just a man walking up to her, cussing at her, and she not really knowing why.”

Walton, the family’s lawyer, said his firm is seeking the officer’s personnel file and wants to speak with people who’ve had interactions with him. He said one witness said the officer had previously arrested her 17-year-old son for jaywalking and told him “that his days were numbered,” Walton said.

He said the officer had no reason to even point his gun at Ta’Kiya, let alone fire it.

The officer “could’ve clearly just eased out of the way of that slow-moving vehicle but instead chose to shoot Ta’Kiya directly in her chest and kill her,” he said.

Before her death, Ta’Kiya Young had bounced around a bit, staying with her father in Sandusky and working as a ticket taker at Cedar Point amusement park. More recently, she’d been staying with her grandmother in the Columbus area, a few hours from Sandusky, to celebrate the family’s summer birthdays and participate in a remembrance of her mother, Dan’neka Hope, who’d died a year earlier.

Ta’Kiya’s mother’s death had “kind of messed with her,” Nadine Young said, and she urged her to get counseling. Ta’Kiya and her grandmother — both of them strong-willed — clashed at times. But their bond remained unshakable, and they spoke every day.

Ta’Kiya also struggled with housing insecurity but had not been in much serious trouble in her short life.

In 2021, she was arrested following a traffic stop in Whitehall, Ohio, in which police said she refused to get out of her car when ordered. Court records indicate Ta’Kiya was jailed briefly before pleading guilty to disorderly conduct. But she moved past that incident relatively quickly, according to her grandmother and the family lawyer. Court records also said she had open charges for petty theft in which her address was listed as “homeless.”

Despite Ta’Kiya’s struggles, a bright future seemed on the horizon for her. She intended to go back to school after the birth of the baby this fall. She had her sights set on a house.

“The struggle was going to be over once she got into the house,” Nadine Young said. “Her and the kids having this nice place, knowing it was theirs, and not having to stay with other people. That was the biggest thing in the world for her. She would’ve been set.”

This week, a notification from the public housing authority came in the mail.

She’d been approved.

“That hurt me to my core,” said Nadine Young, “because she was waiting for that letter.”

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Man shot by Ohio sheriff’s deputy believed to be armed, heading to high school homecoming dance

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October 7, 2024

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Man shot by Ohio sheriff’s deputy believed to be armed, heading to high school homecoming dance

A person accused of being armed and heading toward an Ohio high school Saturday night was fatally shot by officers.

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Around 9:11 p.m. Saturday, Medina County Sheriff’s deputies were assisting Wadsworth Police Department and Wayne County Sheriff’s Office with a suicidal 44-year-old man who was believed to be armed and threatening suicide by cop, CBS affiliate WOIO reported.

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Officers believed the man was heading to Wadsworth High School. The high school was placed on lockdown during the school’s homecoming as a precaution.

Janice Martin, whose daughter Maggie Martin is a senior at Wadsworth High, told WOIO that they received a phone call from her daughter before receiving a call from the school.

“She said I’m not happy because they put us in lockdown. It scared me because lockdown means there’s something really bad happening,” Martin said.

Maggie admitted she was a little nervous and started pacing as she called one of her friends.

“We were just being told we were in a soft lockdown, and they wouldn’t tell us what it was about,” Maggie said. “Some teachers came over to the group I was in and said it’s not a threat to the actual high school. It’s just a situation outside. But that didn’t make me feel any better.”

Wadsworth City School District Superintendent Andy Hill said in a message to parents that the individual was not a student of the district and was an adult.

Around 10:08 a.m. officers spotted the suspect’s car on Silver Creek Road in Wadsworth Twp and initiated a traffic stop.

After the officers stopped the car, the suspect got out with a suspected firearm, according to a release obtained by WOIO.

Medina County Sheriff deputies “engaged the suspect and fired their service weapon.” Officers and EMS administered life-saving measures but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.

Hill said the students and adults at the dance did an “outstanding job” following directions to ensure safety.

“Finally, I would like to thank the Wadsworth Police Department and the Medina County Sheriff’s Office for their quick response last night to enact plans to keep everyone at the high school safe. We appreciate their efforts to prioritize the safety of those in our high school while they actively dealt with the situation off of our campus,” Hill said.

The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation was called to investigate the officer-involved shooting.

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Ohio Lottery Pick 3 Midday, Pick 3 Evening winning numbers for October 6, 2024

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October 6, 2024

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The Ohio Lottery offers multiple draw games for those aiming to win big.Here’s a look at October 6, 2024, results for each game:

Pick 3

Drawings are held daily, seven days a week, at 12:29 p.m. and 7:29 p.m., except Saturday evening.

Midday: 3-4-5

Evening: 6-5-1

Check Pick 3 payouts and previous drawings here.

Pick 4

Drawings are held daily, seven days a week, at 12:29 p.m. and 7:29 p.m., except Saturday evening.

Midday: 4-3-8-7

Evening: 3-6-3-7

Check Pick 4 payouts and previous drawings here.

Pick 5

Drawings are held daily, seven days a week, at 12:29 p.m. and 7:29 p.m., except Saturday evening.

Midday: 5-4-7-0-8

Evening: 3-6-4-8-8

Check Pick 5 payouts and previous drawings here.

Rolling Cash 5

Drawings are held daily, seven days a week, at approximately 7:05 p.m.

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Lucky For Life

Drawings are held daily, seven days a week, at approximately 10:35 p.m.

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Poll shuffle: Horns, Bucks, Ducks at top; Tide to 7

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October 6, 2024

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Poll shuffle: Horns, Bucks, Ducks at top; Tide to 7

It was a week of upheaval in the Associated Press college football poll, with Texas returning to No. 1 on Sunday after a one-week absence following Vanderbilt’s monumental upset of Alabama.

The Commodores’ win as more than three-touchdown underdogs caused the Crimson Tide to drop from No. 1 to No. 7. The last top-ranked team to fall so far was Ohio State, which plunged to No. 11 in 2010 after an October loss to Wisconsin.

Texas, which had an open date, received 52 out of 61 first-place votes and became the first team in two years to bounce in and out of the top spot in a span of three polls. The Longhorns also were just the third team since 2008 to be voted No. 1 after not playing the day before.

Associated Press Top 25

First-place votes in parentheses

Team	Rec.
1. Texas (52)	5-0
2. Ohio State (9)	5-0
3. Oregon	5-0
4. Penn State	5-0
5. Georgia	4-1
6. Miami	6-0
7. Alabama	4-1
8. Tennessee	4-1
9. Ole Miss	5-1
10. Clemson	4-1
11. Iowa State	5-0
11. Notre Dame	4-1
13. LSU	4-1
14. BYU	5-0
15. Texas A&M	5-1
16. Utah	4-1
17. Boise State	4-1
18. Kansas State	4-1
18. Indiana	6-0
18. Oklahoma	4-1
21. Missouri	4-1
22. Pittsburgh	5-0
23. Illinois	4-1
24. Michigan	4-2
25. SMU	5-1

Ohio State beat Iowa for its fourth straight easy win, received nine first-place votes and moved up a spot to No. 2.

Oregon and Penn State each rose three spots, with the Ducks up to No. 3 and the Nittany Lions fourth. Georgia remained No. 5.

Miami, which came back from a 25-point second-half deficit to beat California 39-38, rose two spots to No. 6.

The mayhem wasn’t limited to Alabama.

Six of the 18 AP Top 25 teams that played lost to unranked opponents (33%), the highest mark since six of 16 (38%) lost the first week of October 2020.

The Crimson Tide were among four teams in the top 11 to lose to unranked opponents — the first time that has happened since October 2016.

Tennessee lost to Arkansas and went from No. 4 to No. 8. Michigan lost at Washington and went from No. 10 to No. 24. USC lost at Minnesota and went from No. 11 to out of the Top 25. The Trojans were first among teams also receiving votes.

Texas A&M soundly beat Missouri at home in the only Top 25 matchup. That earned the Aggies a promotion from a tie for No. 25 to No. 15 and the Tigers a demotion from No. 9 to No. 21.

POLL POINTS

The Big Ten dominates the top five, but the SEC maintains its grip on the top 10. No. 2 Ohio State, No. 3 Oregon and No. 4 Penn State are bookended by the SEC’s Texas and Georgia. The SEC also has Alabama, Tennessee and Ole Miss in the top 10.

Double-digit drops by Missouri, Michigan and USC mark the first time since Nov. 13, 2016, that three teams fell 10 or more spots in the same poll. That week it happened to Auburn (8 to 18), Texas A&M (10 to 23) and North Carolina (15 to receiving votes).

The biggest upward movers were Texas A&M (25 to 15), Clemson (15 to 10) and Iowa State (16 to 11).

WHO’S IN; WHO’S OUT

SMU (5-1) was rewarded for knocking off Louisville on the road and enters the rankings at No. 25. The Mustangs have appeared in the Top 25 all but one season (2022) since 2019. Louisville (3-2) has lost two of three and dropped out.

Pittsburgh won at North Carolina to start 5-0 for the first time since 1991 and enters the rankings at No. 22 for its first appearance in two years.

USC (3-2) has lost two of its first three Big Ten games and is out, as is UNLV, whose first-ever Top 25 appearance was spoiled by an overtime home loss to Syracuse.

CONFERENCE CALL

SEC: 9 (Nos. 1, 5, 7, 8, 9, 13, 15, T-18, 21)
Big Ten: 6 (Nos. 2, 3, 4, T-18, 23, 24)
Big 12: 4 (Nos. T-11, 14, 16, T-18)
ACC: 4 (Nos. 6, 10, 22, 25)
Mountain West: 1 (No. 17)
Independent: 1 (No. T-11)

RANKED VS. RANKED

No. 1 Texas vs. No. 18 Oklahoma (at Dallas): It’s their first head-to-head SEC meeting, and it’s a Top 25 matchup for the sixth time in eight games. The Sooners scored with 15 seconds left last season to hand Texas its only regular-season loss. Both teams are coming off open dates.

No. 2 Ohio State at No. 3 Oregon: Entering the season, this was billed as a midseason preview of the Big Ten championship game. It still could be. The Buckeyes have won nine of 10 previous meetings, the only loss coming in the most recent one (2021).

No. 9 Ole Miss at No. 13 LSU: Huge College Football Playoff implications here. The Rebels and Jaxson Dart prevailed 55-49 last year in a dizzying matchup with Heisman winner Jayden Daniels.

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