Here’s the latest about what we know in the case.
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1. Who fired shots and who died?
Kettering Police say an unnamed police officer and Mitchell Simmons, 24, both fired weapons. Simmons, of Kettering, was fatally shot. The officer was not injured.
2. Where and when did the incident take place?
The incident happened around 11:10 p.m. Saturday at the Chatham Village Apartments, 5144 Scarsdale Drive. The complex is north of East Rahn Road between Marshall Road and Bigger Road.
3. What prompted officers to respond to the apartment?
A neighbor called 911 and said she could hear a woman crying and screaming inside an apartment, police said.
“There was a woman screaming very loudly. She was screaming ‘Help me! Help me!’ I can hear her and she kept screaming ‘Get off, get off I can’t breathe. You broke my nose, my nose is bleeding and I can’t breathe,’” the neighbor said.
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4. What happened when the officer entered the apartment?
The officer broke in to the apartment and found Simmons, who police said had a gun. The officer then reported shots fired. The neighbor made a second call to 911.
“One officer went upstairs … there was like eight shots fired,” the 911 caller said in her second, frantic call to police dispatchers. “Please tell me the officer’s OK.”
“Ma’am, the officer is OK … All of our people are OK,” a dispatcher told the woman.
5. What happens next?
The investigation is ongoing. The officer was placed on paid administrative leave until the investigation is complete, which is the department’s protocol. Kettering Police have yet to identify the officer.
Montgomery County Coroner’s Office released Simmons’ name and said an autopsy will be performed.
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