On Tuesday, Rodney Hinton Jr., who is accused of killing a Hamilton County sheriff’s officer on May 2, the day after his son was killed by Cincinnati police, showed up for a bond hearing in Ohio. There was a disturbance in the courtroom.
Judge Tyrone Yates in Hamilton County said that Hinton, who is accused of aggravated murder, should be held without bond until his trial. He also asked that the suspect be able to get mental health care while he was in jail.
During the Tuesday morning meeting, people could be heard yelling in the courtroom gallery. It is not clear what caused the noise, though. That’s why Fox News Digital called the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office to find out more.
Cincinnati police say Hinton Jr. hit and killed former Hamilton County Deputy Larry Henderson with a car around 1 p.m. Henderson was directing traffic near the University of Cincinnati during a graduation ceremony on Friday.
On Tuesday, the prosecutors said Hinton “poses a substantial risk of serious physical harm to any person or to the community.” The lawyer for Hinton told the judge that he thinks his client was “not in the right mind” when he reportedly hit Henderson with his car and killed him.
Chief Teresa Theetge of the Cincinnati Police Department said that Hinton’s 18-year-old son Ryan Hinton was killed when he was shot by police on May 1 while they were chasing a stolen car. During the chase, four people got out of the stolen car and started running away from the police.
Ryan Hinton, who was reportedly armed at the time, hid behind a skip as one officer chased him. The cop shot Ryan when he came out of the skip and killed the 18-year-old suspect, Theetge said.
According to Theetge, two other suspects in the stolen car case have been caught, but one is still on the run.
In a statement released Monday, Ohio Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) President Jay McDonald said that Ryan’s dad, Rodney Hinton Jr., “intentionally murdered a retired deputy who was working special duty at a graduation just because he was a police officer.”
Their lawyers told Fox News Digital in a statement that the Cochran Firm “was hired by Ryan Hinton’s estate to conduct an investigation into his shooting death by a Cincinnati Police Department officer.”
“We are in the early stages of that investigation,” the family’s lawyers said, adding that on Friday, members of the Hinton family and Cincinnati police met to “view body camera video of Ryan Hinton’s shooting death.”
“Ryan Hinton’s family, including Ryan’s father, was present at the meeting and they were understandably distraught as they watched the bodycam video,” the family’s lawyers said. “After the meeting with the police department, Ryan Hinton’s father left in his own vehicle and that was the last we heard from him until learning about the tragic incident involving a law enforcement officer who was working a traffic detail near the University of Cincinnati.”
“Heartfelt condolences” were sent from the lawyers to the family and coworkers of the officer who died yesterday.
“This is an unimaginable tragedy for this neighbourhood.” “This terrible turn of events breaks our hearts, and our hearts also go out to the family of the police officer who was killed,” the lawyers said.
Grandfather of Ryan Hinton, Rodney Hinton Sr., told reporters on Monday afternoon that he is “praying hard for the officer that killed” his grandson and talked about what he saw on the police bodycam video of the shooting death of his grandson.
“The officer looked scared, and so did my grandson. I saw sadness in the video.” “So, it was a bad thing that happened,” Hinton Sr. said. “I didn’t see the police trying to kill, kill, kill.” Not at all. I only saw two people who did something wrong.
Henderson worked for the HCSO for 33 years and had been in a number of specialised units since 1991. These included the dive team, HCPA SWAT, the FBI Task Force Officer, and the HCSO Bomb Unit.
“When Deputy Henderson was first hired as a Sheriff’s Deputy, I saw that he had a talent for teaching and presenting,” Hamilton County Sheriff Charmaine McGuffey said in a statement on Sunday. In the beginning of his job, Larry worked as a trainer for the Sheriff’s Office. He got better at what he did and became a great teacher. He then taught parts of the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office that had hundreds of deputy sheriffs working for them. He had an amazing ability to connect with and affect the lives of police officers. The honour of Larry’s life of service will live on.