Police allege that a father hit and killed a sheriff's deputy with a car, a day after his 18-year-old son was gunned down by officers. Rodney Hinton Jr, 38, from Ohio, is charged with aggravated murder and is being held without bond. The alleged attack came hours after he watched police footage of the fatal encounter with his son, lawyers for the Hinton family say. Cincinnati's police chief said "there is a connection" between the two cases, although there has been no suggestion that the father knew the deputy who died.
On Thursday, city police fatally shot an armed 18-year-old as he ran from them, and the next day long-serving sheriff’s deputy Larry Henderson was hit and killed by a car that authorities say was driven by the young man’s grieving father. The father, 38-year-old Rodney Hinton Jr., is charged with aggravated murder, but neither police nor an attorney representing his family have disclosed any motivation behind his alleged targeting of the deputy. Questions also remain in the police shooting death of 18-year-old Ryan Hinton. The Cincinnati Police Department says he appeared to point a gun at an officer while fleeing Thursday, but the officer’s body camera footage does not clearly capture the moment.
Twin tragedies unfolded in less than 24 hours in Ohio this week after a teen was shot and killed by Cincinnati police — and his father then allegedly mowed down a retired sheriff’s deputy with his car after being shown footage of his son’s death, a family lawyer told The Post. Rodney Hinton Jr. appeared in court Saturday to face an aggravated murder charge in the death of the deputy, prosecutors said. On Friday morning, two hours before the deputy was struck and killed, Hinton Jr., 38, had gone with family members to meet with Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa A. Theetge to view police body cam footage of the death of his son Ryan.
