Investigation into Univ of Cincinnati cop who shot motorist in the head complete

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Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said Officer Ray Tensing "purposely killed" a 43-year-old motorist named Samuel DuBose on July 19. The officer, whom the university said had jurisdiction on the streets adjacent to the school, pulled over the motorist because the vehicle he was driving did not have a front license plate.

According to the tape, the officer asks for the motorist's driver's license and instead is handed a small bottle of booze after a brief back and forth between the two. Suddenly, the officer yells "stop" and shoots the man in the head after the motorist begins making a getaway in the car, according to the tape. The vehicle then crashes into a pole up the street.

According to a tape of his radio call to dispatch, the officer yells "shots fired, shots fired."

"I almost got run over by the car," he said. "He took off on me. I discharged one round. Shot the man in the head."

A university officer who got to the scene immediately after the shooting wrote in his report that Tensing said "he was being dragged by the vehicle and had to fire his weapon." Another officer said he had witnessed Tensing being dragged.

But Deters, the county prosecutor, told the news conference that Tensing's account of the incident was fabricated.

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