Let’s spread these positive vids ❤️❤️ #SayHerName /RyDDhzQAPRįranklin County Children Services released a statement saying that Bryant, 16, was a foster child who was under the agency’s care. Other reports gave her age as 15, but her mother told local journalists she is 16.įamily Members Expressed Anger at the Scene, Describing Ma’Khia, a Foster Child, as a Loving Personįound her TikTok #makhiabryant beautiful girl. Some sites gave her name as Makiah Bryant, Makiyah Bryant or Makhia Bryant, but her mother confirmed to 10TV reporter Lacey Crisp that the correct spelling is Ma’Khia Bryant. He said they arrived at the scene at 4:44 p.m.īryant’s name was confirmed by her family to ABC6 and other local news stations. The shooting happened on April 20, 2021, after officers were dispatched to the location on Legion Lane because “a caller said females were there trying to stab them and put their hands on them,” Woods said in the press conference. The circumstances of the shooting are still under investigation. Other graphic videos emerged from the scene, which you can also see throughout this story. You can see a knife in her hand in the video.Ĭolumbus Division of PoliceMa’Khia Bryant is in the blue jeans by the car in this still from the bodycam video released by Columbus police.
“She’s a f****** kid, man,” one bystander says. “She had a knife,” the officer says in the video. She continues moving as other officers approach her. The video shows the officer’s gun raised in his hands before four gunshots ring out and Bryant falls to the ground against the car. The bodycam video shows the officer arriving at a chaotic fight scene, with Bryant attacking another female, who falls on the ground, before moving toward a second woman near a car, police say with a knife. Police said that the girl shot was a “female with a knife trying to stab” another person when the officer fired. An officer asks, “With a knife?” The woman in pink responds, “Yeah, so he got her.” “She came after me,” the woman in pink tells an officer in a newly released body cam video. Here’s video of the press conference, which contains the 911 calls and additional body cam video. We need a police officer here now.”īryant’s family has claimed that Bryant herself called police, but police said they couldn’t confirm or deny that. “Get here now!” a female says, telling the dispatcher, “We got…girls here trying to fight us, trying to stab us, trying to put her hands on our grandma. In the first 911 call, you can hear chaos in the background.
“Officers attempted life-saving measures almost immediately after the shots were fired,” said Woods. The bodycam video is played shortly thereafter. The press conference starts at about 5 minutes into the below video. He added that the information being shared did not include anything from interviews with witnesses or officers conducted by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation. “Normally we don’t provide information this soon, but we understand the public’s need, desire and expectation to have transparency upon what happened,” Woods said. Woods said the video was from the first officer who arrived on the scene and ultimately shot Bryant. The video was played during a police press conference with Columbus Interim Chief of Police Michael Woods only a few hours after the shooting as police attempted to quell growing protests. In new video, Makhia Bryant can be heard screaming “I’m gonna stab the fuck out of you, bitch,” while lunging at two unarmed people who were posing no imminent physical threat to her
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