'Shots fired': College Hill shootout between police and suspect captured on bodycams

Two Cincinnati police officers exchanged gunfire with a suspect May 3 in College Hill. Footage from the officers' body-worn cameras was released this week.

Officers Adarryl Birch and Kenneth Byrne were sent to a house on East Way just after midnight.

A woman had called 911 because the father of her child texted her. According to a recording of the call, the man told her “I needed to go check on my boyfriend, and then he told me to go look at his mama’s house like they shot his mama’s house up.”

She tells the operator the father of her child is Khayree Waller.

When Birch and Byrne reached the house, they examined the outside with flashlights, then went up on the porch and rang the doorbell.

Shots ring out in the body camera footage, and Byrne can be seen returning fire at a passing car.

Birch shouts "shots fired" into his radio and describes the car. "At us," he tells the dispatcher.

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The officers get back in their cruiser and pursue the suspect for about 10 minutes before stopping him in the 1100 block of Atwood Drive.

The suspect can be seen getting out of the car and running into a driveway, but he lays face down as officers approach with their guns drawn.

"Cuff me," he tells police. "Please don't kill me."

Police said Waller did sustain some minor injuries as a result of a car crash during the incident. He was taken to University of Cincinnati Medical Center after his arrest.

“I am proud of the immense courage, dedication, and restraint displayed by the officers involved in bringing this critical incident to resolution,” Chief Eliot Isaac said of the incident.

Waller is charged with multiple counts of felonious assault and numerous weapons charges. He is being held at the Hamilton County Justice Center on a $1,525,000 bond. A trial date has not yet been scheduled.

Waller is also facing an attempted murder in connection with a previous drive-by shooting, according to the Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office.