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Law enforcement described Andrew Ross Celaius' alleged torture of a 2-year-old girl as "the thing nightmares are made of."
"You could be gone," Columbus police officer Peter Casuccio told the boy. "Everything you want to do in this life could've been over."
The weapons were kept in patrol cars "in case we accidentally hit somebody," the former detective testified in court.
Police said the officers "feared for their safety" before striking him "multiple times."
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Authorities are searching for other suspects and the incident remains under investigation.