On the morning of May 1, 2025, Cincinnati police found a stolen 2021 Kia Telluride parked at the Westview Condominiums off Warsaw Avenue in East Price Hill. Four people got out and ran. About six seconds later, an officer shot 18-year-old Ryan Hinton near the dumpsters at the edge of the woods. This is the body-camera record of that morning, released by the Cincinnati Police Department. Officers cut his shirt and trousers away looking for the wound, start CPR, and call his injuries over the radio: "We got one left side, one center of his chest." Eighteen days later the Hamilton County coroner reported the lethal shot entered the left side of his chest near the armpit, struck a rib and his heart, and exited near the sternum. Ryan Hinton was pronounced dead at the scene. A handgun was recovered nearby. It was not fired. The officer said he heard another officer call out a gun and that Hinton's gun was pointed at him as he came through the dumpsters. Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge said the body-camera footage does not fully confirm that. The officer fired five rounds and has never been publicly named, shielded under Ohio's Marsy's Law. The last three minutes of this video are Ryan Hinton's family arriving at a district station that afternoon, hours after he died, being told almost nothing. "This is our nephew. His mother's not in the state. We're his family." "We just got a phone call. We don't know." "Where's his body? Where's he at?" They are sent downtown to the Criminal Investigation Section on Linn Street, sixth floor. WHAT HAPPENED THE NEXT DAY This video does not contain it, and the title does not promise it. On the morning of May 2, 2025, Hinton family members including Ryan's father, Rodney Hinton Jr., 38, went to the Criminal Investigation Section to watch this footage. Their attorney said he was very distraught. A detective later testified he was upset and agitated, and that relatives did not want him driving. At about 1:05 that afternoon, on Martin Luther King Drive near Burnet Woods Drive, outside the University of Cincinnati's spring commencement, a car struck Special Deputy Larry Ray Henderson Jr., 57. He was in uniform and a fluorescent vest, working a traffic-control detail on the median. He died at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. Deputy Henderson had retired in December 2024 after 33 years with the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office, where he served as an academy instructor, on the dive team, on SWAT, as an FBI task force officer and in the bomb unit. He had nothing whatsoever to do with Ryan Hinton's shooting. WHERE THE CASE STANDS On June 17, 2025, Hamilton County Prosecutor Connie Pillich announced that the officer who shot Ryan Hinton was legally justified in his use of force and would not be charged. The Hinton family said they were unhappy with that finding. Rodney Hinton Jr. was indicted on May 8, 2025 on two counts of aggravated murder, one count of murder and two counts of felonious assault. In December 2025 his counsel moved to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity. In January 2026, after three psychologists filed reports finding severe bipolar disorder, prosecutors dropped the death penalty under Ohio Revised Code 2929.025, which bars capital punishment for defendants with severe mental illness, and Judge Jody Luebbers dismissed the capital charges. Prosecutors say they will seek life without parole. He faces one count of murder and two counts of felonious assault, plus three further felonious assault counts from a jail incident. His trial is scheduled to begin on October 5, 2026. Rodney Hinton Jr. has not been tried and is presumed innocent of every charge against him. Source: Cincinnati Police Department body-worn camera, released to the public. Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office. Hamilton County Coroner's Office. Hamilton County Sheriff's Office. Business Email: Bodycamjusticeyta@gmail.com

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