911 call: 'He's walking down the street with a gun'

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Cincinnati police released a 911 call and cruiser dashcam footage during an afternoon press conference that shed more light on the officer-involved shooting Monday morning that left a man in critical but stable condition.

Authorities transported 24-year-old Christian Jackson to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center after police shot him twice early Monday morning. Officers shot 11 times, according to authorities. Jackson immediately underwent surgery, Cincinnati police spokeswoman Tiffaney Hardy said.

The incident started just after midnight after Jackson's ex-girlfriend, Dewanna Mitchell, called police to say someone broke into her house in the 800 block of Fairbanks Avenue in East Price Hill.

"Somebody just broke into my house, and he's walking down the street with a gun right now," Mitchell told 911 dispatchers. "You gotta catch him."

Mitchell told dispatchers that she was sleeping in her home when she heard a big boom.

"You could tell he kicked the door in and woke us up," she said.

Mitchell told dispatchers she grabbed a hammer to protect herself.

"He just scared me," she said.

Mitchell remained on the phone with the dispatcher for 10 minutes. At one point, she went onto the street to watch as Jackson walked in the middle of the street carrying a gun toward Warsaw Avenue.

"I see a police cruiser, but I don't know if they see him," she said on the call. "Yes, yes. They got him with the gun. Yeah."

As Mitchell was giving the dispatcher her information, 11 gunshots rang in the background.

Mitchell remained quiet for several seconds.

"Oh he's running back down here," she said to the dispatcher. "They're trying to catch him."

Mitchell ran back to her home, and she told dispatchers that she couldn't shut the door. She was eventually able to shut the door and told dispatchers that she's OK, according to a recording of the call.

Another woman called 911 at that time and told dispatchers that a man had been shot twice in the stomach and that police were surrounding him.

"The paramedic still isn't here," the woman said. "They have his hands behind his back."

Dashboard camera footage from a police officer's cruiser paints a similar image of the shooting. In it, you can see as officers drive to the scene of the crime, arriving just as two other officers shoot at Jackson.

Warning: The video contains language some may find offensive.

"When officers showed up they saw a subject matching the description (from the robbery) holding a shotgun," said Cincinnati police Lt. Tim Brown. "Officers approached and told him to drop the shotgun. He started to point it at the officers, and they fired several rounds at him."

Police later identified the officers who shot Jackson as James Davis and Jason Bolte. They joined the Cincinnati Police Department in 1998 and 1999, respectively. This is the first officer-involved shooting both have been involved in, police said.

Cincinnati City Councilman Christopher Smitherman, chairman of the law and public safety committee, said he supports the action Bolte and Davis took.

"When you bring a gun, expect officers are going to do a few things. They will respond appropriately with force," Smitherman said. "Their job is not just to protect the public, but also to protect themselves."

Bolte and Davis have been placed on a three-day administrative leave, which is common procedure.

This was Cincinnati's first officer-involved shooting of the year.

Cincinnati police shot and killed three men in 2014, according to records obtained by The Enquirer. In 2013, one person died as a result of five officer-involved shootings.This was Cincinnati's first officer-involved shooting of the year.

Neither of the officers were wearing a body-mounted camera, police said during the Monday press conference.

"Would body cams have helped here?" Cincinnati Police Chief Jeffrey Blackwell asked during the press conference. "Possibly."

Assistant Police Chief Paul Humphries said he didn't know when Jackson and Mitchell had broken up, or if that led him to break into her house and then later point a gun at officers.

Mitchell reported that a radio had been stolen from her house.

Jackson, who has an arrest record but no prior convictions, was charged with two counts of felonious assault and one count of aggravated burglary.

The incident remains under investigation by the police homicide unit.

Listen to a portion of the 911 call here: