COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ta’Kiya Young had big dreams for her growing family, and for herself.

Seven months pregnant, the 21-year-old Ohio woman loved to spoil her two sons and was thrilled to be expecting a daughter. She bought onesies, scheduled a photo shoot and showed off her belly. And she applied for public housing so they could have their own place while she pursued her goal of becoming a social worker.

Instead, Young and her unborn daughter were buried together — the mother in bright fuchsia and the daughter in white. Neither survived the shooting of a police officer in the parking lot of a grocery store where Young had been suspected of shoplifting in August 2023.

A jury on Friday acquitted the officer, Connor Grubb, of criminal wrongdoing. Her grandmother sobbed in the courtroom,

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