WARREN — A police officer and state trooper were justified when they fatally shot a man raising a shotgun toward them, the Trumbull County Prosecutor’s Office announced Thursday. A 29-page report completed by Prosecutor Dennis Watkins concluded the use of deadly force by Vienna police officer Austin Kennedy and Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper Scott Boyle was appropriate and justified to subdue 55-year-old Shawn Thomas, closing the investigation. Thomas was taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, where he was pronounced dead during surgery from a single gunshot wound to the chest. Watkins wrote, “Every statement and action of Thomas would have been interpreted by a reasonable officer
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