Former Ohio police officer Adam Coy has been found guilty of murder in the fatal shooting of unarmed Black man Andre Hill in 2020

Former police officer Adam Coy was found guilty by a jury on Monday of the 2020 murder of Andre Hill, a 47-year-old unarmed black man who was shot four times after the defendant ordered him to come out of a darkened garage stop a cell phone and a large bunch of keys.

The jury in the high-profile Franklin County Court of Common Pleas case returned its verdict after deliberating for about two and a half days.

In addition to murder, the jury also found Coy guilty of aggravated assault and involuntary manslaughter.

Coy claimed during the trial that he feared for his life when he mistakenly believed Hill was pointing a silver revolver at him as he exited the garage on December 22, 2020. However, Coy testified that Hill was holding back the silver revolver. His right hand turned out to be a silver set of keys.

“I thought I was going to die,” an emotional Coy, a former member of the Columbus Division of Police, testified last week.

Coy faces a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. His sentencing is scheduled for November 25.

After the verdict was announced shortly after noon local time, Judge Stephen L. McIntosh revoked Coy's $1 million bail and Coy was immediately arrested by court officers who escorted him from the courtroom.

Coy was fired from Columbus police about a week after the shooting.

About a month after the shooting, Coy was arrested and charged with Hill's murder.

Coy did not turn on his body-worn camera until he shot Hill, but the device has a “lookback” feature that activated automatically and recorded 60 seconds of the episode without sound, including footage of the shooting.

Body camera footage played for jurors also showed that none of the officers who responded to the incident appeared to immediately administer first aid as Hill lay dying on the garage floor. The footage showed a woman coming out of the house and telling officers that Hill was a guest and “he brought me Christmas money. He didn’t do anything.”

The jury made its decision after hearing closing arguments on Wednesday.

During his summation, Franklin County Prosecutor Anthony Pierson told jurors that the evidence proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Coy's use of deadly force was not justified according to his training and national police standards.

“This case isn't about someone resisting arrest, having cops walk on him, knee him or something like that and he dies,” Pierson said. “This case is not about someone telling the police, ‘I hate you. I'll shoot you'. That's not the point. It’s about a man who followed police orders and was killed for it.”

Coy's attorney, Mark Collins, criticized the state's case, saying prosecutors had not proven the allegations beyond a reasonable doubt.

“We now know that the government's theory is that he (Coy) somehow shot an unarmed man and made the whole thing up after the fact,” Collins told jurors, referring to Coy's claims of self-defense after being mistakenly believed , he saw a gun in Hill's hand. “But that’s perverse, ladies and gentlemen. These are desperate ladies and gentlemen. This is the government, ladies and gentlemen.”

Collins added: “I'm surprised they didn't say he hid the keys.”

In May 2021, the city of Columbus agreed to a $10 million wrongful death settlement with Hill's family, the largest amount the city has ever paid.

The February 2021 indictment of Coy came just days after the Columbus City Council also passed Andre's Law, named after Hill, which requires Columbus police officers to turn on their body cameras when responding to calls and immediately after a call to provide first aid. Violent incident.