Ta’Kiya Monet’ Yvette Young of Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, United States has died. She was 21.
For most of Young’s life, she was raised by her grandmother Nadine L. Young, 61, of Columbus. Ta’Kiya was born in Columbus to Timothy Young Sr., 43, of Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio and Dan’neka Hope, who died on July 15, 2022 at age 38.
Ta’Kiya Young was a pregnant mother with two sons.
Ta’Kiya has two sons, who were born in 2017 and 2020. She was supposed to give birth to her third child, a girl, in November 2023.
While 6 months pregnant, Ta’Kiya she took her two sons to the Ohio State Fair on August 1, 2023 to celebrate her 21st birthday. The fair was held in Columbus from July 26, 2023 to August 6, 2023.
Connor Grubb is a Blendon Township Police Department officer.
Connor Grubb of New Albany, Ohio is a police officer in Blendon Township, Franklin County. He is also a U.S. Marine Corps joint fires observer.
In 2018, Grubb obtained his basic peace officer certification from the Delaware Area Career Center in Delaware, Delaware County, Ohio. In 2019, he joined the Blendon Township Police Department.
In 2020, Grubb graduated from Franklin University in Columbus with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice. That year, his annual wage as a police officer in Blendon Township was $60,545, which increased to $65,924 in 2021.
Did Connor Grubb shoot Ta’Kiya Young at a Kroger store parking lot?
On the afternoon of August 24, 2023, the Kroger store on South Sunbury Road in Blendon Township was temporarily closed. In the evening, a store employee told a male Blendon Township Police Department officer that Ta’Kiya stole several bottles of alcohol from the store.
At around 6:20 p.m., the officer found Ta’Kiya who was inside her car in the store’s parking lot, knocked on the window and the windshield, told her to stop and get out of the car and gestured with his hand to get out of the car. With a large tote bag over her shoulder, she partially rolled down the window and asked, “For what? For what?”
“I didn’t steal s–t”, Ta’Kiya said when the officer said someone accused her of stealing from the store. When he continued to tell her to get out of her car, she said, “I’m not going to do that.”
Another male Blendon Township Police Department officer approached the front of Ta’Kiya’s car and had his firearm drawn in his right hand and his left hand on the hood of her car as she was turning the steering wheel. She asked, “Are you going to shoot me?”
When the car moved forward and hit the officer, the officer fired a single shot through the windshield and hit Ta’Kiya. She was taken to St. Ann’s Hospital in Westerville, Ohio where she was pronounced dead.
On September 1, 2023, Ta’Kiya’s family identified Grubb as one of the two officers although it has yet to be confirmed whether or not it was him who shot her. The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is investigating the case.
On the same day, it was confirmed that the officer who did not fire his weapon has returned from administrative leave. He is back on patrol duty.
Did Blendon Township Police Department chief John Belford reveal who shot Ta’Kiya Young?
John Belford has been the Blendon Township Police Department chief since March 2004. He was a U.S. Army National Guard command sergeant major from March 1978 to September 2019.
Belford has yet to identify the two police officers who encountered Ta’Kiya on August 24, 2023. What the Blendon Township Police Department confirmed was that the officer who shot her has been placed on administrative leave.
Citing Marsy’s Law, the department has yet to name the two officers, who are both male. The law aims to protect crime victims.
According to the department, the officer who shot Ta’Kiya was hit by her car, making him a victim of attempted vehicular assault. The other officer had his arm and hand inside the driver’s window when she accelerated, making him a victim of misdemeanor assault.
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Why did he kill her?
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Because it appears that she tried to run the officer over with her car. First she allegedly stole liquor from Kroger. Next she did not comply with officers instructions to get out of her car. Then it appears that she tried to flee the scene and bumped the officer with the front of her car. Finally and sadly, she was shot by the officer, who most likely felt she was trying to run him over.
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False ! Police officers are taught not to stand in front of a vehicule. The video shows she was turning the steering. Connor Grubb had plenty of time to move away. He was yelling with f words and pointed a gun at the victim . She was justified to drive away fearing for her life. Had she wanted to kill him , Connor Grubb would have been found under the car.
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