Jayland Walker’s death last summer shattered Akron, Ohio.
How could a 25-year-old DoorDash driver – a Black man with no criminal history and a single speeding ticket – die in a barrage of 94 bullets fired by police?
After a grand jury declined to charge the eight officers who fatally shot Walker, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost quickly released thousands of pages of documents, videos and photographs gathered during the state Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s probe.
In the weeks since, the Akron Beacon Journal has read, watched, reviewed and analyzed each item in the BCI investigative file, along with other court records, traffic accident reports and articles in the Beacon Journal archives connected to the shooting or people it touched.
