COLERAIN TWP. — Shots were fired inside a Colerain Township car dealership Thursday just as police arrived on scene, according to our news partner WCPO.
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One shot can be heard on police body camera footage, although police say nobody was injured. The incident happened in the Joseph Chevrolet showroom.
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“We got shots fired inside, shots fired inside,” shouts the officer, who takes cover behind a vehicle in the parking lot for a moment before approaching the door, the bodycam footage obtained by WCPO shows.
Dealership employee, 21-year-old Rashid Dewees, was in the room as police entered, WCPO says. The bodycam shows Dewees sitting in a chair with his hands up, a handgun on the ground between his feet.
Officers grab Dewees by the arm and force him to the ground, bodycam shows.
“I will f****** shoot you,” one of the officers can be heard saying in the video.
“Oh, wow,” said Dewees.
Dewees is then handcuffed and officers work to secure the gun.
Officers then spend around 15 minutes securing the building, and find several employees hiding in the offices and body shop, according to WCPO.
A judge ordered Dewees to have no contact with anyone at the dealership and not to return if he makes bond, WCPO says. Dewees is charged with aggravated menacing and inducing panic. His bond was set at $20,000.
Dewees is no longer employed by the dealership, and he admitted during police investigation that he was “stressed at work.”
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