Maple Heights police officer fatally shoots man, Cleveland police investigate

MAPLE HEIGHTS, Ohio — The Cleveland Division of Police Use of Drive staff is investigating an incident early Monday morning involving a Maple Heights police officer fatally taking pictures an alleged drive-by taking pictures suspect. The officer-involved taking pictures occurred round 4:15 a.m. close to East 93rd and Buckeye Highway after Maple Heights police pursued the suspect believed to have been concerned in a drive-by taking pictures within the 15300-block of Fernway Drive in Maple Heights.

Cleveland police mentioned Monday afternoon that detectives recovered a firearm on the officer-involved taking pictures scene. The person was wounded and later died on the hospital.

Earlier within the morning, Maple Heights police responded to a drive-by taking pictures on Fernway Drive. The sufferer’s dwelling was riddled with roughly two dozen bullet holes spanning your complete entrance entrance to the house. It’s unclear if the drive-by taking pictures injured any of the occupants. Information 5 has reached out to Maple Heights police for added data.

One of many errant gunshots pierced via the entrance bed room of a neighbor’s dwelling, narrowly lacking a lady and baby sleeping inside.

A number of neighbors declined to look on digicam or have their names used as a result of they feared retribution. These neighbors advised Information 5 that the house was additionally the goal of one other latest drive-by taking pictures a number of months in the past.