A Franklin County grand jury has voted not to indict law enforcement officers involved in the July 2023 shooting death of Antwan Lindsey, the county prosecutor’s office announced Monday.
Lindsey, 45, was killed July 8, 2023, in a shootout with a Franklin County deputy and a Columbus police officer on the city’s East Side, The Dispatch previously reported from what authorities said occurred. Body camera footage from a sheriff’s deputy who was working a special assignment at the Walgreens store at 3015 E. Livingston Ave., shows a man telling the deputy he was concerned about another man — later identified to be Antwan Lindsey — upset about his car being towed and acting erratically.
The deputy told the man to call 911 because it was Columbus police’s jurisdiction, according to the body camera footage. But when the reporting person said Lindsey had a gun and was firing shots, the deputy headed to his cruiser. As he walked outside, two booms are heard in the distance, which the deputy recognized as gunshots.