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Thirty-eight-year-old Rodney Hinton, Jr, in a shocking turn of events, used his car to kill a Sheriff’s Deputy one day after police shot and killed his 18-year-old son. According to Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge, the car-ramming incident occurred on Friday at about 1:00 p.m.
Rodney Hinton, Jr. had just left the Cincinnati police department, where he viewed a blurred police body cam footage of his son getting shot by police.
The deputy that Hinton, Jr rammed with his vehicle was out directing traffic near Cincinnati University. The slain deputy, who had retired a few months ago, was not involved in the shooting of Ryan Hinton. He had returned to work to assist the department in managing the increased traffic due to a special event at the University.
Rodney Hinton, Jr.’s son, Ryan Hinton, was one of four people in an alleged stolen car chased by police, police said. All four occupants of the vehicle bailed and ran.
Within six seconds of the boys jumping out of the car and began running, 18-year-old Hinton was shot and killed. Police narrative said before they shot Hinton, they heard metal clicking.
According to Chief Teresa Theetge, they found a gun with an extension clip in the dead boy’s possession and an extra magazine in his jacket pocket.
It is unclear where Hinton Jr. went after he left the police department at about 11:00 a.m. before he encountered the deputy directing traffic.
At the defendant’s Saturday morning arraignment, prosecuting attorney Ryan Nelson said Rodney Hinton, Jr. “in a way that was calculated and premeditated, lined up his car, deliberately accelerated his car, and purposely caused the death of an on-duty deputy sheriff.”
At the arraignment, about 400 deputies and other cops stood inside and outside the courtroom, mean-mugging the accused, Hinton, Jr.
Intimidated by the large gathering of cops, Public Defender Tom Ewing could barely speak on behalf of his client in the courtroom.
The defendant, Rodney Hinton Jr., did not appear frightened by the Cincinnati deputies’ intimidating tactics. Instead, he seemed to be strangely calm and detached, which left many in the courtroom intrigued and questioning his mental state.
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