An Ohio police officer was charged Tuesday with multiple charges, including murder. He was shot Ta’Kiya Younga 21-year-old pregnant black mother who was killed by police in a grocery store parking lot last August.

A Franklin County grand jury has indicted Blendon Township police Officer Connor Grubb on charges of murder, manslaughter and aggravated assault. His arraignment is scheduled for Wednesday. A warrant has been issued for his arrest as part of the indictment.

Young was suspected of stealing alcohol bottles when Grubb and a colleague approached her car. The other officer ordered her to get out, but instead she rolled forward toward Grubb, who fired a single bullet through the windshield into her chest.

According to CBS affiliate WBNS-TV, Young was at least 25 weeks pregnant at the time of the shooting. The daughter she was expecting in November also died.

The state Bureau of Criminal Investigation completed its investigation into the shooting last December before assigning a special prosecutor to oversee the case. The prosecutor then presented evidence to the grand jury within two days. Grand juries do not consider whether the defendant is guilty, but whether there is enough evidence to proceed with a trial.

Grubb’s lawyers said they expected their client to be charged and defended his actions.

“From the perspective of a reasonable police officer, the evidence will show that our client’s actions were justified as there is video evidence showing Officer Grubb was struck by a moving vehicle,” attorneys Mark Collins and Kaitlyn Stephens said in a statement.

Blendon Township Police Chief John Belford said in a video posted on Facebook that disciplinary action against Grubb would be taken immediately, noting that people charged are not allowed to possess firearms. Belford said the town was not involved in the outside investigation into the shooting.

“I want to be clear: We are not making any judgment as to whether Officer Grubb acted correctly. We have not seen the evidence,” Belford said.

Grubb has been a full-time township officer since 2019 and has been on leave since the shooting. Records show he was not licensed to practice as an officer anywhere else in Ohio.

Brian Steel, vice president of the Blendon Township police union, called the charges deeply disappointing. “Like all police officers, Officer Grubb had to make a split-second decision, a reality all too familiar to those who protect our communities,” he said in a statement.

Young’s grandmother, Nadine Young, said the officer should never have drawn his gun when he first confronted her.

“He took a lot from us,” she said Tuesday. “It’s not fair. We don’t have her or the baby.”

The last year has been difficult for the family, including her granddaughter’s two young sons, she said. “It was torture, it was like a whirlwind of pain and suffering,” she said.

Young’s family members demanded that the officer be charged shortly after the shooting on August 24. After seeing bodycam footage showing the officer firing the gun, the family called his actions a “gross abuse of power and authority,” especially given that Young had been accused of a relatively minor crime.

In the video, an officer at the driver’s side window tells Young that she is being accused of shoplifting and tells her to get out of the car. Young protests, both officers curse at her and yell at her to get out, and Young can be heard asking them, “Are you going to shoot me?”

Seconds later, she turns the steering wheel to the right, the car slowly rolls forward, and Grubb fires his gun. Moments later, after the car comes to a stop in front of the building, they smash the driver’s side window. Police said they tried to save her life, but she was fatally injured.

Sean Walton, the family’s attorney, said the law is clear about when an officer can use deadly force.

“In no case does anyone who commits shoplifting contribute to their being killed by a police officer,” he said. “They bear no responsibility.”

Some U.S. police departments prohibit officers from shooting at or from moving vehicles, and law enforcement organizations such as the Police Executive Research Forum say shooting in such circumstances poses an unacceptable risk to bystanders who could be affected by ricochets or the driver losing control of the vehicle.

The Blendon Township Police Department’s use of force policy states that officers should attempt to move away from an oncoming vehicle rather than firing their weapons. An officer should only shoot if he or she “reasonably believes that no other reasonable means are available to avert the immediate threat posed by the vehicle or if deadly force not posed by the vehicle is being directed at the officer or other persons.”

The encounter between Young and police was part of a disturbing series of fatal shootings at Black adults and children by police officers in Ohio and has followed various cases of police violence against blacks across the country in recent years.