Opening statements began Thursday in the retrial of a former Ohio sheriff’s deputy charged with murder and reckless homicide for killing a Black man who was shot multiple times in the back while entering his grandmother’s house.
The shooting of Casey Goodson Jr. by former Franklin County Deputy Jason Meade, who is white, led to protests in Columbus and lingering questions, in part because the sheriff’s office didn’t equip its deputies with body cameras or dash cameras.
