Butler County still seeking weekend homicide suspect

Butler County Sheriff’s detectives are still looking today for a suspect in the shooting death of 29-year-old Trey Shepard at his St. Clair Twp. home early Saturday morning.

An arrest warrant for murder was issued Sunday for William D. Harris, 26, of Cincinnati.

Maj. Mike Craft said today that Harris had not been taken into custody.

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A $5,000 reward is being offered for information leading to Harris’ arrest, according to the Butler County Sheriff’s Office. Harris is suspected in the shooting death of Shepard at about 12:30 a.m. at his Nelson Street residence.

Shepard died of his injuries after being flown to Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton.

The incident happened when an intruder entered an upper floor apartment and shot a male resident during a reported exchange of gunfire.

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In a 911 call, a woman who lived in the apartment downstairs said people had been banging on their doors and broke out the sliding glass doors.

“Someone is breaking into the house upstairs from me,” the woman who was holding her baby told dispatchers. “I hear banging. She (the woman in the upstairs apartment) is crying. She is asking for help.”

The woman said her neighbor cried out that someone was shot outside.

“They said someone is dying outside,” the woman says, begging officials to come quickly.

A woman with Shepard screams hysterically in the 911 call to dispatchers.

“Baby, where did you get shot at,” the woman cries out. “Listen I love you. Stay with me baby, Trey don’t go …”

At one point in the call, she indicates Shepard had been shot in the head.

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