COLUMBUS, Ohio – Jurors at the murder trial of an Ohio officer charged in the death of a pregnant Black mother who had been accused of shoplifting were asked Wednesday to focus on answering one question: Was it “reasonable” for him to fatally shoot her?

A prosecutor said in her closing argument that 21-year-old Ta’Kiya Young wasn’t a threat to Blendon Township police officer Connor Grubb when he shot her in a supermarket parking lot. Rather, she was trying to get away.

“The state is not saying that the defendant woke up that morning and wanted to discharge his firearm,” Montgomery County Prosecutor Erin Claypoole said. “The state is saying when he made that decision, it was not a reasonable one, which means it was not a justified shooting.”

Defense attorney Mark Collins accused th

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