Cincinnati police fatally shot an armed 18-year-old. The next day, his father killed a sheriff’s deputy, authorities say
A Cincinnati sheriff’s deputy was fatally struck by a car driven by the father of an armed 18-year-old man who was shot and killed by police a day earlier, authorities say.
The driver “in a way that was calculated and premeditated lined up his car, deliberately accelerated his car and purposely caused the death of an on-duty deputy sheriff,” prosecuting attorney Ryan Nelson said Saturday morning at the father’s arraignment.
“It appeared from everybody who was on the scene that he deliberately struck the deputy in an attempt to kill him,” Nelson said.
Prosecutors are seeking an indictment for aggravated murder, Nelson said.
Authorities have not said whether the suspect had any connection to the deputy.
The defendant, Rodney Hinton Jr., 38, is the father of a man who was fatally shot by Cincinnati police on Thursday morning, Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge said. On Friday night, police identified the 18-year-old as Ryan Hinton, according to
CNN affiliate WCPO.
Hinton Jr.’s son was armed and fleeing from a stolen vehicle when a responding officer fatally shot him, police said. Police body cam footage does not clearly show whether the fleeing man pointed a gun at the officer.
The family reviewed the footage between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. Friday, and the father was “very distraught,” according to Michael Wright, an attorney who was at the viewing of the footage, the
Cincinnati Enquirer reported. CNN has attempted to reach Wright.
Police said the deputy was killed at about 1 p.m. Friday.
Public defender Tom Ewing acknowledged an “emotionally charged situation” at the arraignment in a Hamilton County courtroom packed with law enforcement officers.
“I understand that there’s a lot of sadness and a lot of anger in this room right now an in the community at large,” he said, before requesting a “reasonable bond.”
The judge ordered Hinton Jr. held without bond until a hearing Tuesday.
