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This is DeAnthony Bulocks and Jerel Austin. Just moments earlier, police heard the two had been inside a stolen car connected to a dangerous shooting spree in a Cincinnati neighborhood.
"Well, it could be a homicide. We don't know yet, but we got drones and we got dogs."
So, officers were racing to find them. But as the search began, investigators realized something far more dangerous. There was a third suspect involved. And according to police, he was the one carrying the gun.
"I know."
"Put your hands behind your back. Hands behind your back."
"Not doing, bro. What the [ __ ] man? Kill us."
"They're down in the woods down here. I can't see them."
"I'm not going down there, though."
"Hey, we don't want to crossfire here."
Within minutes, what started as a routine search for suspects would spiral into a deadly officer-involved shooting. A shooting that would ignite controversy. Multiple arrests and a chain of events that no one saw coming.
"He's got a gun. He's got a gun on your right. On your right. He's got a gun."
In the early afternoon of May 1st, 2025, police in Cincinnati, Ohio, received a report about a stolen vehicle that had just been located after a drive-by in the local neighborhood. The car was along Warsaw Avenue in East Price Hill. The vehicle had been stolen earlier that day from Edgewood, Kentucky, and was tracked by the owner using a GPS. What seemed like a routine stolen vehicle recovery quickly took a turn. Inside the car were suspects Ryan Hinton, DeAnthony Bulocks, and Derell Austin. The moment officers approached, the doors flew open and the suspects bolted, scattering in different directions through the neighborhood.
"Hold on. Here."
"I know about."
"You're good. You're good. You're good. I got you."
"Yeah."
"Hold the channel. She doesn't have another."
"Y'all good."
"Oh, good. We're good. We're good."
"Good."
"Yeah. I was."
"And he fell through the woods and."
"I was crawling through the woods and."
"And just like that, all three suspects were loose in the neighborhood. Within moments, officers across East Price Hill began converging on the area, spreading through nearby streets and alleys in an urgent effort to locate the fleeing suspects before they could disappear. And as multiple police units were now on route to the area, what started as a routine response was quickly growing into a much larger operation as officers realized the potential danger to nearby civilians. Then a call came over the radio. One of the suspects had just been spotted near a library nearly 2 miles from the original confrontation."
"Put the phone down. Put the phone down."
"Put your hands behind your back. Hands behind your back. Hands behind your back."
"I'll go hands. I'll go hands up. I go hands. I go hands. Put your hands behind your back. Hands behind your back. Hands behind your back."
"I did not do, bro. What the [ __ ] I've been chilling. I just came outside. What the."
"I have on the phone with my bro and everything."
"I haven't. What the [ __ ]."
"Knees your chest."
"Y'all just pointed guns at me. Y'all just came over here pointing guns and at me. What the [ __ ] did I do?"
Officers soon detained the first suspect near the library. At first, it looked like a breakthrough. One of the three suspects had finally been caught, but the suspect insisted he had nothing to do with the incident, claiming he had simply been walking through the area. Still, to officers on scene, he matched the description perfectly. As they questioned him outside, another officer stepped inside the library to alert staff about the unfolding situation and see if anyone else was hiding inside.
"We had a we had a shooting."
"Yeah, we had we had one and we're tracking the suspects now. So."
"We're going to go in here for just a second."
"Scared out of me."
"Hold on just a minute. Yeah, I know."
"We had a um we had a shooting."
"And I that's why I was trying to get to you guys cuz I knew you opened at 10:00 and I didn't want to go into detail."
"Okay."
"Um so I was trying to get to you as soon as I can, but he's matching the description of there was three individuals that was involved in the shooting. Um it could possibly be a homicide, but it happened real close to the library. So I was just trying to get to you quickly and he matched. Okay."
"So um that's what I was trying to get to you guys cuz I knew you opened at 10. So, um, possibly it could be a homicide. We don't know yet, but we have three suspects, so we're that's why we're we got drones and we got dogs, so."
"But you have a detail, so that's good."
After the officer finished clearing the library, attention returned to the detained suspect outside. At first, it seemed officers had successfully caught one of the fleeing suspects. But that moment of relief wouldn't last long. As officers continued to question him, they soon realized something was wrong. The man they had detained wasn't one of the suspects after all.
"Yeah, though. Literally, I just told them that. Called you when I came outside. I have a."
"deal. God came at me."
"Good thing is we have."
"Now if I did something I seen y'all pulling up, I would have ran. I ain't going to lie. I would have ran. I'm I'mma tell y I would have took off. These pock would have came off and everything. I I would have took off. I lie."
"But I ain't do nothing. So I ain't got no reason to run. I ain't do nothing."
"I don't got I ain't got no reason to run. None of that."
"You ain't got warrant right now?"
"No. Nothing crazy."
"Nothing."
"Have you fired any gun today? No fireworks or anything?"
"No."
"Okay. Listen, somebody shot at a police officer today. Okay."
"Did you shoot at a police officer today?"
"Yes, sir. You mind if I take a TSR? This won't tell me if you shot a gun today or not."
"Okay. All right. I went like this. They start laughing. Yo, I ain't had a cuss on my hands in a minute. Yeah. Y'all go ahead. I don't mind."
Officers eventually tested the detained man for gunpowder residue and the results came back clean. Just like that, officers realized they had the wrong person. The man was released, leaving all three suspects still on the run. But only moments later, another 911 call came in from several miles away. A woman reported that her gun had just been stolen. What officers didn't realize yet was that the weapon would soon be linked directly to one of the fleeing suspects.
"Um, sometimes, and it's not a whole lot of people that live on the street, but sometimes I I know last night I left it open."
"Yeah."
"I know I left it unlocked. I know that for a fact. Um, but it's been plenty of times where I've left my car door unlocked and I think it's."
"And unfortunately, I'm not up at 3:00 and 4:00 in the morning. Here's the problem that I run into. Um, I bought my gun when I got my gun license. Um, it was 5 years ago. Okay. I had got it from the Pro Bass up in um Forest Fair."
"Yes. The old Cincinnati Mills. Well."
"I just Oh, they needed chicken. I'm going to have to wait. So, I wasn't sure if."
"Check out my driver, please."
"I went to go uh uh what was that? I went to call the police. The lady at the police station said, 'I need to call to see cuz I didn't know the What is that? The serial number I have. It was."
"They should have it though. You called. You called them and they don't have it."
"I called um I called um I called the one over at the Cincinnati Mills. It's closed down. So I called the one over in Westchester."
"Yeah, cuz that's where they moved."
"So he said that they have already taken those files up and they've been sent to corporate. So I have to call corporate. Corporate told me to call ATF."
"So here's what we can do. I I mean, unfortunately with these car break-ins, there's not really a whole lot as far as fingerprints and that, but um you know, it'll be more like insurance purposes and then they try to get that gun in the system. So, I can do the report now and then if you get that serial number, you just call the district."
"So, but my thing is what um what if I can't get into ATF? I am a single mom. I have three boys. One of my babies autistic. I don't get into trouble."
"Yeah. I don't want nobody out here going past."
"So, okay. Yeah, but okay. So, here's the thing. If for some reason you can't get through to them by eventually, I think you'll get through to them because I sent the email."
"It might be time consuming, but I think eventually you'll get through to them."
Officers kept the report in mind as they continued canvassing the surrounding area, hoping to locate one of the suspects. But as the hours passed with no sign of them, more units joined the search. What had started as a simple investigation was quickly turning into a massive manhunt across the area. With that, officers split into teams and began retracing the last locations where the suspects had been seen, hoping the next lead would finally bring them closer.
"Get back inside. Get back. Go. Go, go."
"Last door."
"POLICE CALL OUT. IF YOU'RE UP THERE, call out now. Clear. Clear."
"Yeah, it's broken. Nice."
"Mhm."
"Short room clearing there."
"Yeah."
As officers searched the inside of the block, they found nothing. With no sign of the suspects, they shifted their focus outward, expanding the search to the outside of the building.
"What do you think?"
"Nothing."
"No."
"No."
"Okay."
As time continued to pass, officers and the SWAT team began to feel the pressure. Lead after lead had gone cold, and it seemed the suspects might have slipped away. But just as things were starting to look bleak, one of the search teams on the other side of the neighborhood launched a drone and spotted a suspect running into a wooded area. With that, officers quickly formed a plan to trap the suspect from both sides. One group moved to the front, creating noise to distract him, while another team quietly approached from behind. The tactic is known as a pincer movement. A strategy commonly used by police to prevent a suspect from escaping. Control the area from multiple angles and allow one team to approach while the other keeps the suspect distracted.
"COME OUT HERE AND SHOW ME YOUR [ __ ] HAND. WALK TO ME."
"YEAH. Right here. Go further up. Further up that way. They're they're running this way. 569 Mount Hope. They're in the woods."
"They're down in the woods down here. I can't see them."
"Black shirt should be towards you. toward you."
With the first group keeping the suspect distracted, the second team quietly moved in from behind and within moments they were able to capture him.
"59 traffic."
"Holding the channel."
"I got one in white shirt."
"Holding the channel."
"I got one. Stand by. Get up."
"Stand up."
"Come here."
"Stand up."
"Let's go up this way."
"Walk."
"All right. One guy in custody is a white shirt with blue jeans. We still have one more at large. The one in black still large. We're back here from behind 27 2400. It is not a shot fired in a national district. Copy. Discharge."
Eventually, officers managed to capture the first of the three suspects and place him in custody. Their focus now shifted to the remaining two, but the situation was becoming more complicated. Officers reviewing nearby CCTV footage were only able to clearly identify two individuals on camera. One of them had already been detained, but the other, dressed entirely in black, was still missing. Even worse, there was still a third suspect unaccounted for. At that moment, officers didn't know what he was wearing or where he had gone. What they would later realize was that he was the one carrying the gun.
"[ __ ] [ __ ]"
"[ __ ] shut the [ __ ] up."
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"Spit on you."
"I want to cry."
"Oh my god."
"Jesus."
"From no commentary to just interrogation because I know some of you guys hate that. But that's not the end. We really enjoy what we are building. So, we have an exclusive Patreon community where they get first-hand access to anything we post. and all uncensored footage and images. And some of the things are truly horrifying. Then, just as the search continued, another group of officers nearly 3 miles away made another breakthrough. They spotted a second suspect, quickly moved in and were able to detain him."
"3122, I got one coming down at me at Warsaw and Glenway. Step down here. Keep your hands where I can see them. Step down here. Walk towards me."
"I got hands."
"Okay."
"Step towards me. Keep walking towards me."
"Drop it."
"Behind you."
"Go ahead and turn around for me. Walk backwards towards me."
"You want me to do it? Where is that officer?"
"Putting him in custody. Glenway."
"I literally on my way to work. I work right here."
"Congratulations. went down behind 28 Maryland. So they're headed down towards Avenue. One wearing a white t-shirt, one wearing a black t-shirt. Both no black."
"I work right here. I I work the house. I just walked to work. I can tell you the route I just walked."
"So I got all right."
But as officers began confirming his identity, the breakthrough quickly fell apart. They soon realized they had made yet another mistaken arrest.
"Like he like he explained to you. Okay. We were just involved in the shooting."
"Two of the guys that ran from us came from right up there. That's why you're being stopped. Okay. Okay. As long as everything checks out, you're fine. Okay. I appreciate your cooperation. That's what."
"That's why nobody's hurt right now. Okay."
"That's why we're stopping you. Okay."
"I apologize. Can I please call my wife and please."
"Give us just a second?"
"All right. Sounds like you might have been at the wrong place the wrong time."
"Yeah, I I'm just on my way to work, man."
"Hey, they they checked already."
"They did. Okay."
"All right, my man. You are at the wrong place at the wrong time."
"I apologize."
"We're good. If they already if they already checked him out, we're good."
"312, do you copy?"
"I did not. I apologize."
"We appreciate your cooperation. Thank you. You're good. You're good."
"Um I would suggest I'm going to work. I work right here. Literally a street over."
"You'll see it on the news tonight. What happened? All right."
"Wrong place. Wrong time."
"Yeah. He he popped out right at this walkway. I was like And it happened right there. I'm like, 'No, baby. No.'"
"All right. I'm going back down to State Street."
"I appreciate it. I uh I gave me a bit of little bit of the Oh."
With two suspects still on the run, officers brought in canine units to help track them down. The dogs were given the scent from the stolen car, allowing them to begin following the trail of the people who had been inside. At first, it looked promising as the canine units quickly picked up movement through the neighborhood. But the trail wouldn't be easy. Officers knew the scent could disappear at any moment. Still, they pressed forward, releasing the canines and beginning the search through nearby yards and wooded areas.
"Got to come up in here."
"Okay. Photos."
Unfortunately, officers still had no success locating the suspects. As the K-9 units began pulling back from the search area, another unit received a new tip. Someone reported seeing a suspect either hiding in or running past a nearby garage. With that information, officers quickly moved in to take control of the area and investigate the new lead.
"Door handle."
"Okay."
"What's that?"
"He's not back yet."
"Oh, okay."
"And we got plenty of time. This guy's locked down. He's locked down. He's locked down. That's not. He's gone."
"Let's give him a break."
"Do you have a fob? Can you just unlock it?"
"I'm just going to. Okay. Stay low. Just stay low on it."
"Okay. Clear back. Clear back this way."
"You want me to go ahead and open this box? Watch you."
"It's unlocked."
"Get yourself. I don't see nothing in the back seat. Trunk and back seat look clear to me. Clear all the way to the floor. Back here, Donnie."
Yet again, officers found no sign of the suspects. Lead after lead either led to empty areas or the wrong person. Just as it seemed like the search was coming to a dead end, the unit positioned at the top of a nearby hill spotted something. A man dressed entirely in black moving through the area.
"Mitchell where9 helper in the woods 569 in the woods holding channel for non emergency."
"Oh sh holding the channel the one and all shots fired. Where."
"shot you please?"
"274 the address right behind us."
"Yeah."
"What's that address again?"
"27."
Using the same tactic as before, officers moved to flank the suspect from both sides of the wooded area, slowly pushing him out toward an open clearing. What the suspect didn't know was that an entire unit of officers was already waiting for him on the other side. With the second suspect out of the three now in custody, they transported him into the police car so they could be ready to take him to the station.
"Watch your head. Step over here. We're going down here. Down this way. Going on the other side."
"All right."
"No, we're good to go with him."
"Take a seat."
"Bullets."
With two of the three suspects now in custody, it looked like officers were finally gaining control of the situation. But there was still a major problem. Earlier in the day, a woman had reported that her gun had been stolen, and officers still hadn't found it on either of the suspects. That meant the last suspect still on the run could very well be armed. So, while some officers transported the first two suspects to the station to be identified, the rest remained on high alert, continuing the search for the final suspect, still somewhere out there. Just as officers began gaining control of the situation, another 911 call came in. A homeowner reported seeing someone running through their backyard. The caller didn't realize it at the time, but the person they had just seen was the final suspect officers had been searching for. And because the sighting was so close to where units were already positioned, officers immediately knew they were closing in.
"Is there any dogs in here?"
"Nope. down to the right."
"We got plenty of cars on Grand."
"Right on this."
"I'm not going down there, though."
"Here, let's clear this."
When officers arrived and checked the backyard, they quickly realized the suspect had already moved on. But this time, they weren't going to lose the trail. Instead of stopping the search, officers pushed forward, following the path straight into a nearby wooded area where the suspect had just fled.
"I'm go down this little landing right here."
"White shirt."
"I thought they got the white shirt. custody is a white shirt with his blue jeans. We're still here."
"Hey, we don't want to walk into a crossfire here."
And within seconds of entering the wooded area, officers spotted him.
"He's got a gun. He's got A GUN ON YOUR RIGHT. ON YOUR RIGHT. HE'S GOT A GUN."
"Stand out."
"Let me see your ass."
"Yes. Go ahead and twist your mouth."
"Show your hands."
"Show your hands. Show your [ __ ] hands."
"Help me. Stay right there."
"Please help me."
"Don't [ __ ] move. Don't move."
"Don't move."
"Don't move."
"Still got a gun."
"Don't [ __ ] move."
"Don't move."
"location."
"Don't [ __ ] move."
"Don't move."
"Where? Where do you see it? Where do you see it? Where do you see it? Underneath somewhere where you see it."
"Don't Don't reach. Don't reach."
"Don't reach."
As quickly as the encounter began, it was over. The two officers searching the wooded area spotted the suspect holding a gun and pointing it toward them. Fearing for their safety, the officers opened fire. In total, five shots were fired. But even as the shots rang out, officers immediately called for an ambulance, rushing to get the suspect medical help.
"I got a magazine right there, too."
"I got the magazine."
"and I'm just standing here."
"Sure. Yeah, I'm assuming yourself. You stand here."
Despite the efforts of officers and medical personnel at the scene, the suspect was later pronounced deceased. He was eventually identified as 18-year-old Ryan Hinton. With that, officers had finally located all of the suspects involved. But it had come at a cost. And as the minutes passed, news of Ryan Hinton's death began spreading quickly, eventually reaching his family.
"No, he's not. [ __ ] [ __ ] Thank you. Are you guys."
"family? I'm his grandmother."
"Three subjects out of 3201 Warsaw might be family of the uh."
"victim earlier. Close."
"Come on. Let's go in."
"We We don't know what happened. We just found out."
"I'm I'm there. There's nobody."
"This is my mother-in-law. There's nobody in there."
"Hey, there's nobody in there."
"Do Do they Do you want to talk to somebody?"
"We get it. We don't know. We don't We just got a phone call. We don't know. This is our nephew."
"His mother's not."
"His mother's not in the state."
"We're his family. We're his family."
"Um, so all the investigators are down at 801 Lyn Street. Do you know where that is?"
"That's number one."
"Not not not District One. It's the the criminal investigation section. I don't know where that's at."
"It's at the corner of of West 8 and Lind Street."
"Okay. Do you know where that Shell station is in like the White Castle?"
"I got it."
"That's 801 Lynn. That's where all the investigators are."
"Where where's his body?"
"Where is he at?"
"He's at It's at the hospital."
"Oh, he's already at university."
"Is someone in here?"
"I I don't know. I don't know his name. I'm just saying the person that was involved is at is at the hospital."
"Okay."
"Okay. Get in the You can't drive. I'll come back and get my car."
"They'll have the answers for you down there."
"Okay. Okay. Give me the key so I can move the car. Give me a handicap bracket so I can put it back. Calm down. Calm down. You want me to move it? Let me move it. Let me move. Okay."
"Are you you ladies going to be okay? Can you make it down there?"
"Yeah. She Yeah."
As Ryan Hinton's family struggled to process the news, the medical examiner would later release the findings of his autopsy. According to the report, Hinton had been struck by three rounds. One round entered under his left arm and passed through his chest, critically damaging his heart before exiting near the center of his chest. Another round struck his left forearm, causing a non-fatal soft tissue injury. A third round caused a soft tissue wound near his upper back and right shoulder area. Investigators determined that the chest wound, the one that struck his heart, was the fatal injury and was likely the first shot that hit him. Back at the station, officers sat the two suspects down and were able to identify them as 19-year-old DeAnthony Bulocks and 18-year-old Jerel Austin. During questioning, both admitted they had been inside the stolen car with Ryan Hinton. The car had been stolen earlier that day from Kentucky, and when officers approached the vehicle, all of them ran. Bulix and Austin told investigators they fled through the neighborhood trying to get away, which is why officers had to search the area using drones, canine units, and multiple patrol teams before finally arresting them. However, both suspects insisted they had nothing to do with the shooting. Investigators later confirmed that neither of them fired a weapon. According to police, the only person armed at the time was Ryan Hinton, who officers say pointed a gun toward them before the shooting occurred. In the end, the death of Ryan Hinton quickly became the center of a growing legal battle as his family began demanding answers and calling for a full investigation into the officer-involved shooting. Just days later, the situation took an even more tragic turn when Hinton's father, Rodney Hinton Jr., was charged with aggravated murder after allegedly driving his car into a Hamilton County Sheriff's as a protest. Meanwhile, the two surviving suspects from the stolen vehicle, DeAnthony Bulocks and Jerel Austin, were charged in connection with the incident and later pleaded guilty to obstructing official business.