Murder retrial beginning in deputy’s killing of a Black man entering his grandmother’s Ohio home

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Opening statements were set to begin Thursday in the retrial of a former Ohio sheriff’s deputy charged with murder and reckless homicide in the 2020 killing of Black man who was shot multiple times in the back while entering his grandmother’s house. The shooting of Casey Goodson Jr. by former Franklin County Deputy Jason Meade, who is white, led to protests in Columbus and lingering questions, in part because the sheriff’s office didn’t equip its deputies with body cameras