The father of a man fatally shot by police at an Ohio Wal-Mart says a cellphone call in which he said he heard his son's dying breaths keeps replaying in his head.
John Crawford Jr. talked about that last day of his son's life to the Cincinnati Enquirer in a telephone interview from his home in Jackson, Tennessee.His son, John Crawford III, was shot Aug. 5 in a Wal-Mart in the Dayton, Ohio, suburb of Beavercreek. A caller to the emergency dispatcher told police that Crawford III was waving a weapon that turned out to be an air rifle.
Officers have said Crawford III was shot when he didn't respond to orders to put the gun down. The Crawford family and their attorney say that a section of store surveillance video they saw shows Crawford III holding the air rifle and talking on his cellphone.
The family requested public release of the store video. But Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine refused to release it while the investigation is continuing.
By Ruchi Singh
reporter
Park Sae-jin
swatchsjp@ajunews.com
