Driver who is accused of fatal to meet the deputy

Cincinnati (Wxix/Gray News) – The police from Cincinnati says a man who is accused of having killed a sheriff of a Hamilton County on Friday is now charged with severe murder.

The chief of police Teresa Theetge said Rodney Hinton Jr. was the father of an 18-year-old who was killed in East Price Hill on Thursday at a shootout with officer.

The deputy who was hit on Friday was outside of his vehicle to manage the traffic at the intersection of Martin Luther King Drive and Burnet Woods Drive when a car hit him, said John Cunningham, Cincinnati police.

The deputy later died in the Medical Center of the University of Cincinnati, the police said.

Hamilton County Sheriff Charmaine McGuffey said through tears that the deputy retired a few months ago, but has been working as a special deputy since then.

“I knew the man and I knew what an enormous, enormous person he is and what enormous loss we all suffered,” said the sheriff.

She added that the deputy was “so popular and so well known” that the building in which the officials held a press conference on Friday could be fulfilled with his friends and his family who “respect him”.

Theetge said her heart goes to the loved ones of the MP and she wants people to know that “the officer has just done his job.”

According to Cunningham, the Cincinnati police identified the officer involved in 18-year-old Ryan Hinton on Thursday as an 18-year-old Ryan Hinton.

The police say that the 18-year-old is one of four people who were found in a stolen vehicle found in a parking lot in the Warsaw Avenue in East Price Hill.

All four started and two were later taken into custody, the police said.

One of the suspects who were still on the run, according to Officer Ken Kober, put a pistol on the police. He is the President of the Union to represent the Cincinnati police.

The officer shot on the armed suspect, who has been identified as a 18-year-old Hinton since then. The chief of police said he died of his injuries.

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