Harrison avenue in cheviot. Near the border with westwood. Nine on your sides John Genovese was the first to report live from the scene. He joins us with new developments in just the past few hours. John. Tonight investigators are beginning their sixth hour here on scene. Take a look ad lib. Were told despite several commands that man reached for his gun prompting officers to shoot. Along harrison avenue where westwood meets cheviot. A pickup truck crashing into a polethe driver00 55 41he was walking away like he was drunk or something, disoriented Cincinnati Police connecting the dots to a previous call. It didnt take long. 03 06 14we had a call around 4 pm for a person who was intoxicated waving a gun in the areaa few hundred yards from the wreck02 14 31 never in my life it was 2 car lengths ahead of me three officers were told coming face to face with the suspect 02 03 09there was cops all over right there in that say the man was compliant. In an instant things changed. 03 07 10the
Tonight we are getting a closer look at that deadly shooting of a man in cheviot. The whole thing caught on camera. 9 on your sides tom mc kee shows us that video and what the citys top cop is saying tonight. Cincinnati Police Officers have to make life and death split second decisions every day and nowhere was that more apparent than here on harrison avenue wednesday when they confronted paul gaston. And, many people caught it on their cell phone cameras. Cameras. Get on your face right now. Back up. Keep your hands where we can see them. Keep your hands where we can see them. Go all the way down. Them. Please do what youre asked. Please. Back up. Do that up. The ground. He raises up, with his right hand reaches to his waist band and see the reaction of the officers. Striking the individual. The man was identified as paul gaston, whom police had been trying to locate for waving a gun in the air. He crashed his truck at harrison and boudniot, then walked a quartermile into cheviot wher
And baby are in critical condition. One passenger was able to talk to police. Officers believe drugs may have played a role in the crash. These are live artimis pictures from 275 at 27. Near the crash. As you can see. Traffic is very slow while officers investigate. We expect it will be that way for a while since this is a fatal crash. Nine on your side will continue to cover this for you and and well have more information on nine on your side at five. Right now investigators are trying to figure out why a driver ran into the back of a school bus in Highland County early this morning. The crash left the driver dead and injured several students. Jordan burgess looks at the questions surrounding the wreck. Students on that bus were only about 3 minutes from their high school here on a everyday when suddenly they took a hard hit from behind. Behind. I just heard a loud bang. Keith marler was used to the sounds of the bus outside his was different. Looked out my window and saw the car and
Polethe driver00 55 41he was walking away like he was drunk or something, disoriented Cincinnati Police connecting the dots to a previous call. It didnt take long. 03 06 14we had a call around 4 pm for a person who was intoxicated waving a gun in the areaa few hundred yards from the wreck02 14 31 never in my life it was 2 car lengths ahead of me three officers were told coming face to face with the suspect 02 03 09there was cops all over right there in that area thereat first police say the man was compliant. In an instant things changed. 03 07 10the person retrieved a gun from their waistband the officers perceived that threat they fired upon that individual 02 05 06when the guy just barely moved the first cop was standing here like that pow shot him, when he shot all of em just started shooting at the same time as investigators were at work the shell casings shadowed by yellow markers. 02 06 26i jumped outta my van started screaming at the up because thats how close we werethe 36year