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LIMA, Ohio — A special prosecutor says a white police officer has been charged in the shooting death of a black woman during a January drug raid in Lima. An Allen County grand jury today indicted a Lima police sergeant on two misdemeanors for shooting 26-year-old Tarika Wilson to death and injuring her 14-month-old son during a Jan. 4 drug raid at her home.

The special grand jury, which met last Wednesday and Thursday under the direction of Special Prosecutor Jeffrey Strausbaugh of Defiance County, indicted Sgt. Joseph A. Chavalia, 52, for negligent homicide and negligent assault.

Sergeant Chavalia, who has been on paid administrative leave since the fatal shooting, was expected to be arraigned later this morning in Allen County Common Pleas Court.

Police said they were prepared to handle any backlash from the news. The shooting raised concerns about the way African-Americans are treated by the mostly white Lima police department. Wilson was biracial; Sergeant Chavalia is white.

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