EUCLID, Ohio — A first-year Euclid police officer in his 20s was shot to death Saturday night in what authorities describe as an “ambush” after officers responded to a menacing complaint on East 211th
Street.
The deceased officer was identified as Jacob Derbin, 23, who had been on the police force for less than a year. Euclid Police Chief Scott Meyer said Derbin’s father is also a member of the police department. She reported to officers that the suspect had fled before police arrived. Police entered the backyard and were “ambushed by gunfire,” Meyer said. Derbin died later at a hospital. No other officers sustained injuries, Meyer said.
The Ohio Attorney General's Office released these photos of a suspect sought in Saturday's Euclid police shooting, identified as Deshawn Anthony Vaughn.Cuyahoga County court records list a Deshawn Vaughn of Euclid and of the same age as pleading guilty in 2021 to receiving stolen property and having weapons under a disability. He was sentenced to nine months in prison.
“It is a cruel irony,” Attorney General Dave Yost said in a news release, “that a mother lost her son on Mother’s Day, and that this murder happened just as we prepare to solemnize our fallen during Police Memorial Week. My heart burns with anger at this injustice, for the family of this young officer and the Euclid Police Department.”
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