We are learning more about the active shooter at UC Medical Center on Wednesday. Police have been reviewing video and interviewing the officers who responded to the scene. It started as the suspect 20-year-old Isaiah Currie, pulled two guns from his pockets as he was stopped at the metal detector entering the U-C Med center psychiatric unit. The security guard who tried to stop him was shot twice and remains hospitalized.
Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac says Currie then tried to leave the center but when he got to his car, realized his keys were back at the metal detector and returned to get them. As Currie went back inside, a Cincinnati police officer working an off-duty security detail nearby arrived on the scene after hearing the broadcast that there was an active shooter. The shooter fired at the officer who retreated, and then Currie shot and killed himself. Officer Bob Nelson was not injured.
The chief says Currie has a violent criminal record and was just released from jail December 11th. He was locked up for assaulting a guard at the Justice Center, but had his bond reduced from $125,000 to $7,500.