Hudson, Ohio: An Emirati college student was unarmed when an Ohio police officer fatally shot him five times after a traffic accident, a spokeswoman for the state attorney general said on Tuesday.
Saif Nasser Mubarak Al Ameri, a 26-year-old student at Cleveland’s Case Western Reserve University, was shot once in the head, once in the face and three times in the left leg by Hudson police officer Ryan Doran. His death on December 4 has been ruled a homicide.
“No weapon,” Jill Del Greco, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Mike DeWine, replied when asked if Al Ameri was armed.
She said the probe by the state’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation probably would take months before the findings could be turned over to a special prosecutor in DeWine’s office.
Officials in Hudson, which is about 48km southeast of Cleveland, asked for the state to take over the investigation.
The officer in the shooting, Ryan Doran, has been with the Hudson Police Department since 2004 and has been placed on paid administrative leave, a city spokeswoman said.
Police have said officers responded to a call about an erratic driver on the Ohio Turnpike in Hudson. Al Ameri, who was driving, lost control of his vehicle, which flipped, and he fled into nearby woods.
Doran found Al Ameri and shot him after a scuffle, according to police accounts.
A Washington Post database said 902 people had died in US police shootings this year.
