Columbus police announced Tuesday that a man who died in an exchange of gunfire with officers in the emergency room of a Westerville hospital last year had killed someone with the same gun two days earlier.
Jackson was killed on April 12, 2021, in a shootout with Columbus police and hospital security inside the emergency room at Mount Carmel St. Ann’s hospital in Westerville, where he had been getting treatment a second time after being found unresponsive, the last incident in the parking lot of a Chase bank branch.
Police tried for nearly five minutes and gave more than 90 commands for Jackson to put down his weapon. An officer tried using a stun gun to attempt to resolve the situation. However, Jackson fired again, and officers returned fire. , Jackson was struck 20 times, according to his autopsy report.