Two Medina County Sheriff’s deputies are on paid administrative leave after fatally shooting 47-year-old Andre Dewayne Lamont Martin.
Cleveland Police Chief Annie Todd said preliminary information indicates that officers assigned to a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)/Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission (OOCIC) task force were conducting a narcotics investigation. At approximately 4:29 p.m., they encountered a suspect who produced a knife, prompting two officers to discharge their service weapons, per Chief Todd.
Cleveland Police, alongside members of the Medina County Sheriff’s Office, held a Thursday afternoon press conference where reporter questions were addressed, but little information was provided due the the investigation being in its early stages.
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“Each task force is an independent operation. A lot of it is about large scale drug operations, so I don’t know specifically what they were working on in this investigation, but a lot of our task forces are related to large scale drug trafficking,” Chief Todd stated…