Murder of Reagan Tokes

rdf:langString Murder of Reagan Tokes

rdf:langString Reagan Tokes

rdf:langString Brian Golsby

rdf:langString Reagan Tokes

rdf:langString Grove City, Ohio, United States

rdf:langString Ohio State University

rdf:langString Reagan Delaney Tokes

rdf:langString Brian Golsby

rdf:langString Reagan Tokes + several others

rdf:langString The murder of Reagan Tokes occurred on the night of February 8, 2017, in the Scioto Grove Metro Park in Grove City, Ohio. Tokes, a twenty-one-year-old student at Ohio State University, was abducted while leaving her job in Columbus’s downtown by Brian Golsby. Golsby robbed and raped Tokes, and forced her to drive to the Scioto Grove Metro Park. There, he forced her to strip naked and marched her into a field where he shot her twice in the head just shortly before midnight. Her body was found the following morning. Golsby had recently been released from prison where he had served a six-year sentence for kidnapping a pregnant woman and her child and raping the woman. He had pled down to robbery and attempted rape.He was staying at a temporary housing program. The officials at the housing program and his parole officer did not monitor him, and he violated probation and committed six robberies without being arrested before murdering Tokes. Golsby was convicted in March 2018 and sentenced to life in prison though prosecutors filed a cross-appeal, arguing that a legal error prevented him from getting the death penalty. In 2019 prosecutors were granted the authority to appeal. Oral arguments in front of Ohio's Tenth District Court of Appeals were held on July 30, 2020. In September, the appeals court ruled that prosecutors could not continue to pursue the death penalty. Under former Franklin County District Attorney Ron O'Brien, the state appealed the decision and the Supreme Court of Ohio accepted the case. However, under newly elected District Attorney Gary Tyack, the state's appeal was withdrawn. The murder of Tokes received extensive media coverage in Central Ohio and was listed as one of region's top ten news stories in 2017 by The Columbus Dispatch. The case has received national attention as well, being featured on programs such as Dateline NBC and On the Case with Paula Zahn. Tokes's murder has also led to calls for changes in Ohio’s criminal justice system. In 2018 Governor John Kasich signed part of the Reagan Tokes Act into law. Tokes's family sued the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) and NIRSE Inc., the company whose program housed Golsby, arguing that their negligence and failure to monitor him led to Tokes's murder. Several courts dismissed the lawsuit against the ODRC and the Supreme Court of Ohio declined to hear the Tokes' case against the department. The lawsuit against NIRSE Inc. remained pending, and a trial was set to begin in 2020. The lawsuit was later settled.

rdf:langString Murder by gunshot

rdf:langString Ohio State Penitentiary, Youngstown, Ohio

rdf:langString Life imprisonment without parole

rdf:langString Reagan Delaney Tokes