Overview
- Authorities say the shooting happened around 1:30 p.m. Monday on the 1600 block of East 133rd Street after the deputy exited a toppled portable restroom.
- The Sheriff's Department reports the deputy encountered several people and fired after seeing one person pull a gun from a waistband, prompting the group to flee.
- A juvenile arrived at University Hospitals with a gunshot wound shortly after, and officials believe that person was struck by the deputy; the injury was described as not life-threatening.
- The deputy was working a private road-crew security job, is commissioned through the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department, wore a sheriff's uniform, and was not injured.
- The Sheriff's Detective Bureau, Crime Scene Unit, and Internal Affairs Unit opened investigations, and early reports differed on whether anyone was wounded.