Robert Thomas, 74, confronted Jason Keys, 43, with an assault rifle in 2021, an incident that ended with Keys fatally shot -- by someone else.
No, said a Franklin County jury Friday afternoon when it acquitted 74-year-old Thomas of involuntary manslaughter for his role in a confrontation that ended with a homicide on Father’s Day 2021 in a residential neighborhood on the Far East Side.
The shooter, 25-year-old Elias Smith, is charged with murder. His trial is scheduled for December in Franklin County Common Pleas Court. Sam Shamansky, one of Thomas’ defense attorneys, argued during the trial there’s no evidence Thomas pointed his gun at anyone or attempted to load it as witnesses allege. And even if Thomas did commit aggravating menacing, Shamansky said Thomas could not have anticipated Smith’s actions.
When Keys and his wife went to leave that afternoon and get in their car, Thomas confronted Keys with an unloaded assault rifle but ammunition clips in his hands. A loud argument broke out with family members running outside and screaming. Williams Keys’ grandfather Cordell Williams, took Thomas’ gun, according to Thomas and testimony at trial. Thomas ended up on the ground at one point.
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