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Bernard Bell, a 32-year-old African American man, was shot and killed on June 20, 2019, on Dutch Colony Drive in Cincinnati’s Winton Hills neighborhood. The fatal wound was to his chest; he was pronounced dead at University Hospital. A woman was also shot in the same incident but survived with non-life-threatening injuries. The shooting happened at about 4 p.m.

The Cincinnati Police Department’s Homicide Unit investigated. On June 22, 2019, 38-year-old Rodney Etter was arrested by the fugitive apprehension squad and charged with Bell’s murder; bond was set at $1.1 million on the murder charge and $100,000 on a felonious assault charge. Etter’s defense contended the shooting was self-defense and said witnesses, city cameras, and Facebook live videos would support that claim, while the prosecution maintained the evidence showed Etter committed the murder. A grand jury hearing was scheduled for July 2, 2019.

Did anyone in Winton Hills or who was nearby around 4 p.m. on June 20, 2019, see or record anything that could help clarify what happened?