Sonny was a great guy known to me and many other current and former LEOs here in the Greater Cincinnati area. A lot of good people are mourning him right now. 27 years on the force.
He was responding to a 911 call about a person in the street behaving strangely and waving a gun. Whetzel Avenue in the Madisonville section of Cincinnati. He was wearing body armor and still he died from a gunshot wound to the chest.
Even a round which doesn’t go through a vest can kill if it stops the heart from trauma impact. It is always sad when a good man is lost to senseless violence. He seems to personify what it means to ‘protect and serve’ ...
Deeply sorry that you have lost your friend, prayers for all.