Officials with the Prosecutor's Office said they plan to pursue this as a death penalty case

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WEBVTT FROM THE SNIFFLES, AS SOME FOUND IT HARD TO FIGHT BACK TEARS. IN A COURTROOM FILLED WITH SADNESS AND ANGER, LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS FOUND STRENGTH IN ONE ANOTHER. >> ON THE RECORD STATE OF OHIO VERSUS WADE WINN. THE OUTRAGE DIRECTED AT WADE -- KARIN: THE OUTRAGE DIRECTED AT WADE WINN, THE 23-YEAR-OLD OLD ACCUSED OF KILLING DETECTIVE BILL BREWER AND INJURING LT. NICK DEROSE. >> THIS CASE STARTED WHEN THE DEFENDANT CALLED 911, INDICATING HIS HOME WAS BEING BURGLARIZED. KARIN: DEPUTIES ARRIVED AT WINN’S APARTMENT ON ST. ANDREWS DRIVE. THEY SAY HE REFUSED TO LEAVE. >> AT SOME POINT DURING THE STAND OFF YOUR HONOR, THE DEFENDANT FEIGNED A SUICIDE AND BC DEPUTY BILL BREWER AND LT. -- BECAUSE DEPUTY BILL BREWER AND LT. NICK DEROSE ARE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND THEY TAKE AN OATH TO PROTECT AND SERVE, THEY ENTERED THE DEFENDANT’S APARTMENT WITH INTENTIONS OF SAVING WINN’S LIFE. BUT NOT ONLY HAD THE DEFENDANT NOT ATTEMPTED SUICIDE, HE WAS WAITING IN AMBUSH FOR THE OFFICERS AND THE SPECIAL RESPONSE TEAM. KARIN: DEPUTY BREWER WAS KILLED. >> BILL WAS AN OUTSTANDING MAN, 20 YEARS, HE WAS A GOOD FATHER, A GOOD HUSBAND, A GOOD FRIEND, A GOOD EMPLOYEE AND HE’S WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS MORE OF. AND SOME DIRT BAG HAS TAKEN THIS FROM EVERYBODY. >> I THINK THIS IS A VERY GOOD EXAMPLE OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MENTAL ILLNESS GETS OUT OF CONTROL. KARIN: DEFENSE ATTORNEY JAY CLARK SAYS HIS CLIENT HAS SERIOUS PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS. >> HE’S BEEN HOSPITALIZED. HE’S BEEN SEEN BY PSYCHIATRISTS ON AN OUTPATIENT BASIS AND HE’S BEEN MEDICATED. KARIN: CLARK SAYS WINN WASN’T CURRENTLY TAKING MEDICATION. AS OFFICERS LEFT THE COURTROOM, LT. DEROSE, WALKING WITH CRUTCHES, WAS AMONG THEM. HE RECEIVED HUGS AND OTHER GESTURES OF SUPPORT. TOGETHER, THEY GRIEVE AND STAND STRONG DURING THEIR DARKEST HOUR WINN’S BOND WAS SET AT $10 MILLION . I ASKED JAKE LONG IF HIS CLIENT WAS ON ILLEGAL DRUGS. HE SAID HE DID NOT KNOW. HE SAID HE NEEDED TO LOOK AT PAST PSYCHIATRIC RECORDS BEFORE HE WILL COMMENT ABOUT POSSIBLY ENTERING AN INSANITY PLEA. THEY SAID OFFICERS DID NOT FIRE ONE SINGLE SHOT DURING THE ENTIRE STANDOFF.

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A man accused of shooting two deputies – one fatally – allegedly faked his own suicide and ambushed officers who attempted to render aid, prosecutors said Monday.Wade Edward Winn, 23, appeared in a Clermont County courtroom Monday morning, a day after a 12-hour standoff ended with two officers shot in a Pierce Township apartment.Winn entered the courtroom with noticeable injuries to his face.He's accused of fatally shooting 42-year-old Detective Bill Brewer, a 20-year veteran with the Clermont County Sheriff's Office, and wounding Lt. Nick DeRose, a 22-year veteran."Bill was an outstanding man, 20 years, he was a good father, a good husband, a good friend, a good employee, and he's what this country needs more of, and some dirt bag has taken this from everybody," said Clermont County Sheriff Robert Leahy.The standoff started at about 7 p.m. at an apartment on St. Andrews Drive. It ended early Sunday after Winn, 23, was taken into custody."This case started when the defendant called 911 indicating his home was being burglarized. Law enforcement officers responded. Your honor, the defendant refused to exit his home. He was observed to have weapons. As a result, the Clermont County Special Response Team responded and set up a perimeter and tried to convince the defendant to leave his apartment," assistant prosecutor Darren Miller said. "At some point during the standoff, your honor, the defendant feigned a suicide, and because deputy Bill Brewer and Lt. Nick DeRose are law enforcement officers, and they take an oath to protect and serve, they entered the defendant's apartment in what they believed would be in effort to render aid, and potentially save the defendant's life, but not only had the defendant not attempted suicide, he was waiting in ambush for the officers and the special response team."Miller said Winn fired multiple rounds through the wall of his apartment, murdering Brewer and attempting to murder DeRose. "It was only hours later, after the apartment caught fire, that the defendant surrendered and was taken into custody without a single shot being fired by any law enforcement officers," Miller said. It's not clear how the fire started.DeRose has since been released from the hospital, and was in the courtroom Monday morning.Officials with the Prosecutor's Office said they plan to pursue this as a death penalty case. Winn's bond was set at $10 million.Winn's attorney, Jay Clark, said his client is mentally ill."I think this is a very good example of what happens when mental illness gets out of control and is not treated, not recognized, more than anything," Clark said.Clark wouldn't say what disorders Winn had been diagnosed with."He's been medicated before in the past, and they're significant. It's not like he had a little anxiety because he had to take a test. They're serious psychiatric disorders," Clark said. "He's been hospitalized. He's been seen by psychiatrists on an outpatient basis, and he's been medicated."Clark said Winn wasn't currently medicated. Clark said he didn't know if his client had been taking illegal drugs and said it was too early to comment on whether Winn will enter an insanity plea.Winn has a lengthy criminal record. There's a mix of traffic violations and criminal offenses in his record. There are misdemeanor criminal cases going back to 2015.In December 2015, Winn was charged with illegal use or possession of marijuana drug paraphernalia.Records show he pleaded no contest and was found guilty.Records show he was charged in April 2017 with possession of drugs/marijuana, and he pleaded guilty in May.Online records show by September 2017, Winn was again charged with illegal use or possession of marijuana drug paraphernalia, and he pleaded guilty that October.Court records show in December 2017, Winn was once again charged with possession of drugs/marijuana and illegal use or possession of marijuana drug paraphernalia.The records show he pleaded guilty to both charges.In August 2018, the court shows Winn was found guilty of improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle and sentenced to a fine and court-monitored probation until August 2019.