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August 9, 2014
Authorities say a man brandishing a gun inside a Walmart store was shot to death by police Tuesday night, but a state official says the gun was an air rifle.
Montgomery County Coroner’s Office investigator Jim Fannin said Wednesday that John Crawford, 22, of Fairfield, was fatally shot at a Walmart in the Dayton suburb of Beavercreek.
Beavercreek police said Crawford was shot around 8 p.m. after waving a rifle-type weapon around inside the store.
Officers shot him after he failed to comply with verbal orders. He later died at a hospital.
Authorities said Angela Williams, 37, of Fairborn, collapsed in the store as she ran from the shooting. She died due to a medical condition.
Williams was scheduled to get married this weekend.
Nobody else was hurt.
Walmart spokeswoman Brook Buchanan said the company was working with police and may have a statement later Wednesday.
The mother of Crawford’s children said the shooting was all a misunderstanding.
Leecee Johnson said she has more questions than answers after the father of her children was shot and killed.
Johnson said she was on the phone with Crawford when he was inside the Walmart and said that he got a fake toy gun from inside the store.
She said she heard everything.
“I just heard them shooting him like he was nothing and he was telling them that it wasn’t real and they didn’t even give him a chance to respond. They just shot,” Johnson said.
Beavercreek police said the officers acted appropriately, given the circumstances, but Johnson thought otherwise.
“They just acted so recklessly and they could have went about it in a better way by just even (shocking) him or anything, not just shooting him,” Johnson said.
Detectives did not respond when asked if Crawford’s gun was real or fake, but Attorney General Mike DeWine said in a statement Thursday afternoon that Crawford was holding an air rifle.
DeWine said Crawford had a “variable pump air rifle” manufactured by Crosman, a MK-177.
Beavercreek police have asked the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigations to assist with the case.
The investigation is ongoing.
