December 31, 2011
The Cincinnati police chief says an officer fatally shot a man who pulled a gun from his pocket that looked like a semiautomatic weapon but later was determined to be a BB gun.
Chief James Craig said yesterday that someone called police Thursday night to report that Ronnie Pittman, 54, had a gun and was threatening to shoot or to kill someone.
Craig said Pittman came out of his apartment when police arrived and pulled the weapon. The officer fired once when Pittman refused to drop the weapon and again when he advanced toward police.
Craig said Pittman re-entered his apartment, where a SWAT team found him dead about three hours later, shot in the neck and upper chest.
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