To: longnshort who wrote (866578 ) 6/20/2015 12:50:26 PM From: joseffy Respond to Black 911 caller kills responding officer Officer Sonny Kim, 48 wisn.com Trepierre Hummons called 911 then waited with a gun for police to arrive, Cincinnati police said . Killer Trepierre Hummons killed 48-year-old Officer Sonny Kim, a husband and father of three, police said.Officer Sonny Kim pretended to be a concerned witness who'd seen a man acting erratically with a gun, according to 911 and dispatch tapes released by police.'Shots fired!' Hummons dialed 911 again to make sure police were on their way, and he repeated his location. Moments later, the dispatcher repeated to an officer the description of the irate man with the gun. Hummons wounded Kim multiple times in spite of the protective vest he wore, the police chief said. And when a probation officer arrived moments later, Hummons shot at him, too. Struggle for gun "The suspect then returned to Police Officer Kim, who was lying wounded on the street and began to fight with him in an effort to take the officer's firearm," Blackwell said. Kim struggled as he bled, but couldn't hang on to his weapon. When a third officer, Tom Sandmann, arrived, Hummons used Kim's gun to fire at him. But Sandmann returned fire and wounded Hummons. As a juvenile, Hummons had been arrested on burglary, robbery and for illegally carrying a concealed weapon, Blackwell said. As an adult, he was a member of a local gang called the Clutch Gang, the police chief said. No one warned police Officer Kim spent his spare time as a karate instructor and was a rare sixth-degree black belt , CNN affiliate WLWT reported. His students laid bouquets of flowers outside his school.
