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Sports TwitterFoster thought someone trying to rob house, attorney says
Saturday, May 03, 2008
Derrick Foster, the former Patterson Co-Op High School and Ohio State football player charged with shooting two Columbus police officers, thought someone was trying to rob the house in which he was playing dice, the Columbus Dispatch reported.
"He didn't know they were police officers. He responded, maybe not appropriately, but he responded," Foster's attorney, Christopher M. Cooper, said, according to the Dispatch. "We're all praying for these officers."
Extras
The Wednesday night, April 30, shooting wounded John Gillis and Anthony Garrison, officers who were part of a unit searching for drugs.
