Maple Heights officer fatally shoots suspect in Cleveland

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – A Maple Heights police officer fatally shot a 22-year-old man on Cleveland’s East Facet early Monday morning, in line with authorities.

Cleveland police stated the taking pictures occurred close to Buckeye Street and East 93rd Avenue round 4:17 a.m. That is within the metropolis’s Buckeye Woodhill neighborhood.

Based on Cleveland police, Maple Heights officers have been chasing a suspect automobile believed to have been concerned in taking pictures into properties in Maple Heights.

The a part of Cleveland’s Buckeye Woodhill neighborhood the place all of it occurred is fairly quiet. There are a couple of abandoned companies, a few homes, and a church. 19 Information spoke with a person who works on the block. He wished to stay nameless.

“I hate that that occurred particularly within the space the place my enterprise is,” the person stated.

A supply instructed 19 Information a Maple Heights officer was chasing the automobile down Buckeye Street when the suspect hit a deer.

“He hit a deer,” an officer stated over the radio. “He’s crashing, he’s dropping it.”

Sources inform 19 Information the officer crashed into the suspect’s automobile after which three folks acquired out of the automobile and ran off. 19 Information discovered that one of many males, 22-year-old Datwaun Cathings, tried to shoot the officer, however his gun jammed. The officer then shot Cathings who jumped over a fence earlier than collapsing in a yard. Paramedics took him to UH the place he died.

“I’ll simply be extra cautious,” the person who works within the neighborhood stated. “I don’t be out right here at night time. Through the daytime, I’m often in my enterprise with the doorways closed and the gates locked if I’m simply down right here working.”

Cleveland police are dealing with the investigation. 19 Information is working to seek out out if police arrested some other suspects linked to the incident.

Police added no officers have been injured and a firearm was recovered on the scene.

No different particulars are being launched at the moment.

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