Additional reckless murder charge filed against officer in Andre Hill shooting
An attorney for Coy, Mark Collins, told CNN Friday that his client planned to plead not guilty to the new charge.
“This new charge leads us to believe the prosecution doesn’t have faith in their felony murder charge,” Collins said.
Coy fatally shot Hill, who was Black, within seconds of their encounter as Hill walked toward Coy holding an illuminated cell phone in his left hand, body camera footage showed. Hill was unarmed.
Coy turned his camera on after the shooting. The camera’s look-back feature captured 60 seconds of video, but no audio, before Coy turned it on.
Andre Hill
The body camera footage appears to show Coy and Hill walking towards one another, and Coy starts shooting within a few seconds. It’s not clear whether Hill or Coy said anything during their brief interaction because Coy did not activate his body camera.
The first few seconds of Coy’s body camera video in which audio is available show the officer ordering Hill to get his hands out to the side, ordering him to get on his stomach, and warning an officer to not get close because one of Hill’s arms is under the car where he collapsed.
Coy was fired in December as a result of the shooting. Then-Chief of Police Thomas Quinlan said in a statement at the time that the evidence against Coy provided “solid rationale” for termination.
The next hearing in the case is scheduled for Wednesday, April 28.
Rebekah Riess and Amir Vera contributed to this report.
