Father of 18-year-old fatally shot by Ohio police charged with hitting and

The father of an 18-year-old who was fatally shot by police during an alleged stolen vehicle incident in Cincinnati on Thursday has been charged with hitting a deputy with his car and killing him, with the police chief saying the two fatal encounters are connected.

The 38-year-old man, identified by police to NBC affiliate WLWT as Rodney Hinton Jr., allegedly hit a Hamilton County sheriff’s deputy Friday afternoon at Martin Luther King Drive and Burnet Woods Drive near the University of Cincinnati. The Cincinnati Police Department and Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office did not confirm the suspect’s name, or respond to requests for comment.

The recently retired deputy was working as a special deputy and directing traffic near the university during graduation events, officials said at a news briefing Friday. Officials did not identify him, citing Marsy’s Law, which protects victim’s names from being disclosed due to privacy protections.

“He was so well liked and so well known, we could fill this building with the law enforcement agencies that respect him, love him, his friends, his family,” Hamilton County Sheriff Charmaine McGuffey said at the briefing. “We are so deeply saddened.”

Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge said there was a definite connection between this incident and Thursday’s police shooting of an 18-year-old, whom she identified as Hinton’s son.

The 18-year-old was fatally shot by a Cincinnati police officer who responded to a report of a stolen vehicle at an apartment complex at 2500 Warsaw Ave. around 9 a.m. Thursday morning, according to police. WLWT said police identified the 18-year-old as Ryan Hinton.

The incident occurred in a parking lot at the end of a long driveway, Theetge said at another news briefing Friday. The vehicle was allegedly stolen from northern Kentucky earlier Thursday morning.

Two officers in police vehicles responded to the area to apprehend the four people who were in the car, according to Theetge. All four of them began to run, some in different directions, when approached by police — prompting the two officers to pursue Hinton and another individual, Theetge said.

Hinton was armed, Theetge said.

Body camera footage shared by the Cincinnati Police Department and reviewed by NBC News shows an officer exiting his vehicle and aiming his gun at the 18-year-old, who appeared to be running away. The officer fired at least four times, according to Theetge, and the 18-year-old fell to the ground. It’s not clear from body camera footage if Hinton had aimed a firearm at officers.

“Get the f— down,” the officer could be heard saying afterward. Theetge said she believes Ryan was hit by two bullets, in the chest and the arm.

Footage from the second officer’s body camera shows the officer running toward the first officer and the 18-year-old while warning fellow officers that someone is…