Akron police handcuffed Jayland Walker’s body after killing

Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man fatally shot by police in Akron, Ohio, was handcuffed when his body was delivered to the coroner’s office.

Eight officers fired dozens of bullets at Walker after he led the cops on a car chase and then took off on foot in the early morning of June 27 in northeast Ohio.

Walker was dead at the scene, but officers still handcuffed him before he was transferred to the Summit County medical examiner, CNN reported Tuesday.

The final autopsy report is still a work in progress, according to CNN. Ohio state police are investigating the shooting; the eight officers who killed Walker have been placed on paid leave.

Police attempted to pull Walker over for a traffic stop, but he sped away and led them on an 18-minute chase that ended when he hopped out of the moving car and attempted to run across a parking lot.

Cops said that during the car chase, Walker fired a single gunshot out of the driver’s side window of his car.

When Walker stopped running and turned in the parking lot, police opened fire en masse.

“We don’t treat animals that way,” Walker family attorney Paige White said last week. “Time and again, what we see across this country are white people who are able to commit crimes, to slaughter people and who live to tell the tale. Jayland Walker wasn’t able to do that.”

There was a gun in Walker’s car, but he was not carrying it when he sprinted out of the vehicle on foot, police confirmed Sunday.

The shooting led to protests throughout Akron, and the city canceled its Fourth of July festivities due to outrage over the shooting. Mayor Daniel Horrigan said it was “not the time for a city-led celebration.”