Ohio cops shoot unarmed man who was skateboarding

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Police officers in Cincinnati, Ohio are investigating an officer-involved shooting of a man riding a skateboard in the neighborhood of College Hill.

Cincinnati Police Department detectives say that officers had been called to the 6000 block of Hamilton Avenue on Friday, but they have revealed little else about the shooting.

Eyewitnesses, however, say that the man was unarmed and the police had no justification for the shooting. The man in question, they say, was in the process of skateboarding when he was shot by officers.

They say that there were a total of nine shots fired at Camrin Starr, 30, before all was said and done.

Paramedics arrived on the scene shortly thereafter and took the man to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center where he was later pronounced dead.

One eyewitness said that someone else ran from the scene after the shooting.

Another eyewitness told local reporters with NBC 5 that this was all initiated by "Citizens on Patrol" officers who were in the area. They did not elaborate on who they saw fire the shots.

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The Cincinnati Police Department are still tight-lipped about the whole thing and have refused to release any more information about the victim or even the identity of the shooter.

College Hill residents with more information, eye-witness accounts or photos and video footage of the incident are asked to send content to [email protected].