The shooting will be the first test of a new law Akron City Council passed unanimously in June that requires police videos in cases involving use of deadly force to be posted online within seven days for the public to view at. Releasing this footage will allow the public to see for themselves what occurred, including the moments leading up to the event." Law requires timely release of video when deadly force used "Our residents expect and deserve the highest degree of transparency and accountability regarding any use of deadly force by an Akron police officer. "Regarding the officer involved shooting that occurred early this morning, we will be releasing the body worn camera footage to the public in a timely fashion," Horrigan said in the release. I know that the citizens of Akron expect transparency and they will absolutely receive that in a timely manner.”Īkron Mayor Dan Horrigan also issued a statement.
A complete and thorough investigation will take place and our findings will be shared with the public.
“Members of the Akron Police Department value every human life and the loss of life in this incident is not the outcome we wanted. “This was a very unfortunate incident,” Akron Police Chief Steve Mylett said in the release.
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The APD Office of Professional Standards and Accountability will do a separate internal investigation, with results submitted for review by the police chief and the Akron police auditor. The Summit County Medical Examiner's Office will perform an autopsy. The case then will be turned over to the Ohio Attorney General’s Office for review before being submitted to a Summit County grand jury for evaluation, police said. The investigation will be conducted by members of the APD Major Crimes Unit, assisted by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation. They were immediately placed on paid administrative leave pending the results of an investigation, per department policy. The two officers each have about seven years of experience in the department, according to a news release. So, I know the officers did what they had to.” Akron police chief, mayor issue statements “I honestly believe that he would have killed her," she said. "If he couldn’t have back, he would have killed her. The neighbor, who asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation, is convinced police did all they could to save lives. Though the neighbor said Gross seemed like "a nice guy," she said he had broken into the home, threatened his estranged wife and "even put her in the hospital once." In the next minute of chaos, the sound of a gunshot (or gunshots) is unclear over the barking dog and the yelling of the husband, wife and boyfriend.Ī neighbor who has known James Gross and his wife since they moved into the apartment home two years ago said their relationship was troubled. Then, about six minutes after police arrived, the woman yells that her estranged husband has kicked in her bedroom door. “He won’t let us out of the bedroom,” the boyfriend says to the police at one point. The woman and her boyfriend threw open their window to communicate their location in the house, as well as that of her disabled brother in another bedroom. "He says you’re not coming up in here. You’ll have to kill him," the woman tells the 911 dispatcher after informing her husband that the police had arrived. After police arrived, the husband ran downstairs and reportedly barricaded the front door. Dave Laughlin, who gathered information from responding officers, said the man entered the home's front door. Before her door was kicked open, the woman told the 911 dispatcher this was at least the seventh incident involving her husband.Īkron police Capt. Call logs show officers have responded to the location a dozen times in the past two years for domestic violence and fights.
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