Demarlo Harris, a 30-year-old Black man, was shot and killed on December 12, 2019, in the Villages at Roll Hill apartment complex in Cincinnati. He was found bleeding on the lawn between two apartment units and was pronounced dead at the scene; the shooting happened around 9 a.m. Police initially had no suspects in custody.

Harris had been arrested months earlier in August 2019 as one of five people accused in a bank fraud scheme tied to Fifth Third Bank involving depositing bad checks and withdrawing funds before they cleared; the last arrest linked to that theft occurred on September 12, 2019. On December 19, 2019, Cincinnati police, with assistance from the Dekalb County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia, arrested Robert Chapman, 28, and charged him with aggravated murder, murder, and felonious assault in connection with the shooting, which investigators described as a drive-by on President Drive.

The case drew attention locally to both violent crime and financial crime and had a profound effect on Harris’s family and the community. Does anyone have information about Harris, the incident that morning, or the events surrounding his earlier fraud case?