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<h3><span style="color:#808080;"><em><strong>&#8216;Regardless of the outcome of the investigation, this officer should be pulled from active patrol for proper training before he kills an innocent &#8211; a gun is clearly quite dangerous on him&#8217;</strong></em></span></h3>
<h6><span style="color:#080101;"><strong>Cop shoots Ohio journalist at traffic stop after confusing camera, tripod for gun Monday in Clark County, just outside Dayton</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#080101;"><strong>New Carlisle News photo journalist, Andy Grimm, was shot by </strong><strong>Deputy Jake Shaw </strong><strong>after getting out of his Jeep to set up his tripod, hitting him twice</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#080101;"><strong> &#8220;I turned around toward the cars and then &#8216;pop, pop,&#8221; &#8211; Deputy Shaw proceeded to shoot Grim without a word or the warning to stop, show his hands </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#080101;"><strong>Shaw&#8217;s explanation is “I thought it was a gun”</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#080101;"><strong>Deputy Shaw and the victim are known to each other in the small town</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#080101;"><strong>Grimm does not want the officer to lose his job in what may be a &#8216;misund</strong>erstanding&#8217;</span></h6>
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<h6 class="ra-caption"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-249570" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/andy-grimm-1.jpg" alt="Andy Grimm 1" width="1200" height="800" />Photojournalist Andy Grimm was shot, without warning by Clark County Sheriff&#8217;s deputy, Jake Shaw, in Ohio on Monday</h6>
<p>An Ohio sheriff&#8217;s deputy shot a news photographer after confusing his camera and tripod for a weapon, on Labor Day.<br />
The Clark County deputy shot New Carlisle News photojournalist Andy Grimm in the side as he unloaded a tripod from his vehicle to snap pictures of a traffic stop.<br />
Grimm was on an assignment around 10 p.m. on Monday to take pictures of a lightning storm. While he was taking pictures, a traffic stop occurred on the same road, according to his paper.<br />
According to <a href="https://www.newcarlislenews.net/index.php/public-records/sheriff-reports-6/3290-deputy-shoots-new-carlisle-news-photographer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New Carlisle News</a> Andy Grimm &#8220;had his camera in his hand&#8221; when he was shot in his side by a Clark County sheriff&#8217;s deputy in New Carlisle, which north of Dayton.<br />
&#8220;I was going out to take pictures and I saw the traffic stop and I thought, &#8216;Hey, cool. I&#8217;ll get some pictures here.'&#8221; the victim recounted from his hospital bed.<br />
Grimm said he pulled into a parking lot in full view of the deputy, got out of his Jeep and started setting up his tripod and camera.<br />
Without warning, the deputy, later identified as Jake Shaw, opened fire as Grimm was setting up the tripod.<br />
“I turned around from the Jeep and it seemed like instant, I heard pop-pop,” Grimm said from his hospital bed.<br />
One bullet struck him in the chest and Grimm said another may have grazed his shoulder.<br />
Deputy Shaw and the victim know each other. After the shooting the officer rushed over to the injured cameraman, repeatedly saying, “I thought it was a gun,” Grimm said.<br />
“Now that I’m OK, I’m not so much mad, but when I was on the ground and in the back of the ambulance, I was kind of angry at him,” Grimm said.<br />
New Carlisle News Publisher Dale Grimm said the photographer, left work minutes before the shooting to chase a lightning storm passing over the small town, which boasts a population of about 5,700 people 20 miles north of Dayton. He encountered the traffic stop and turned his camera toward that instead.</p>
<h6 class="ra-caption"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-249569" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/newspaper-photog-andy-grimm-was-shot-as-he-stepped-out-of-his-jeep.jpg" alt="Newspaper photog Andy Grimm was shot as he stepped out of his Jeep" width="1200" height="798" />Grimm was shot after getting out of his Jeep, attempting to set up his tripod in full view of the cop who shot him</h6>
<p>He learned of the shooting when Grimm called from the ambulance.<br />
“He said there was no warning, no ‘show me hands’ or ‘drop what you have,&#8217;” the paper owner said, while changing Tuesday’s front page to reflect his son’s shooting around 3 a.m.<br />
From the hospital, Grimm retraced his steps leading up to the shooting, wondering what caused the deputy to reach for his gun.<br />
“Until I hear his side, I guess I won’t know what I did wrong,” Grimm said.<br />
The newspaper speculated that the deputy may have mistaken the camera for a weapon. Grimm said the deputy Jake Shaw, gave him no warning.<br />
&#8220;I was just doing my job,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I know Jake. I like Jake. I don&#8217;t want him to lose his job over this.&#8221;<br />
The victim&#8217;s dad who is also his employer, said his son isn&#8217;t looking for swift punishment.<br />
&#8220;Andy does not want him to get fired,&#8221; Dale Grimm said, calling the shooting a misunderstanding.<br />
“This is a small town. Everybody knows everybody. It was just a terrible misunderstanding,” his father said.<br />
The state’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation is probing the incident.</p>
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Trigger happy Ohio cop shoots journalist at traffic stop, without warning, after confusing camera, tripod for rifle
