GUILTY OH - Rico Rutherford, 32, shot to death, Lincoln Heights, 6 Sept 2009

Police are looking for the person responsible for the shooting death of a convicted sex offender early Saturday in Lincoln Heights.

Police responded to a 911 call around 2 a.m., the caller saying a man had been shot in the 1100 block of Simmons Ave. The first officers on the scene found 32 year old Rico M. Rutherford lying in the road, suffering from several gunshot wounds. He was taken to University Hospital, where he died.

Investigators from Hamilton County Sheriff's Office and Lincoln Height Police Department say Rutherford was involved in a verbal dispute before he was shot. The gunman was driving a 2 door gray car. The man fired several shots from the car and then fled the scene. Police don't know a make or model, and they have only a vague description of the man.

According to the Ohio Attorney General's Sex Offender registry and the Ohio Department of Corrections, Rutherford was a tier two sex offender and spent six years in prison for two counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a young girl, possession of drugs and tampering with evidence. He was released from jail and put on parole on June 18th.

Snipped from: http://www.local12.com/news/local/s...der-Shot-to-Death/QIJgsJRegkOcZw2jwVi1vA.cspx

That's a shame. Really. No seriously.

I wonder who he got caught with?

mysteriew said:

That's a shame. Really. No seriously.

I wonder who he got caught with?

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Cincinnati is also where 13-year old Esme Kenney was brutally attacked and murdered exactly six months ago by a convicted sex offender:

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81087&highlight=esme+kenney

This kind of thing will keep happening if the courts do not start giving these the time they deserve!!

From June 2011:

http://www.leagle.com/decision/In OHCO 20110630761/STATE v. BARON

Following a jury trial, defendant-appellant Cameron Lamar Baron was found guilty of murder and two accompanying firearm specifications. Baron separately entered a guilty plea to the offense of having a weapon while under a disability. The trial court sentenced Baron to an aggregate term of 28 years' to life imprisonment...

Just prior to the shooting, Rutherford and his companion, Krista Gamble, had exited from a vehicle onto a street in Lincoln Heights. Baron nearly struck Gamble as he drove down the same street. Gamble shouted something at Baron's car as he drove past her. Baron then backed his car down the street to Gamble and Rutherford. Baron never exited from his vehicle, but he verbally sparred through his car window with Rutherford, who stood outside Baron's vehicle. During the verbal confrontation, Baron placed a gun on the window of the car and fired at Rutherford approximately four or five times. Rutherford died from related injuries. Baron fled the scene, and was apprehended several weeks later.

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