Brandon Michael Grimes, 22, was shot the night of September 9, 2025, in the Mount Healthy neighborhood just north of Cincinnati. Officers responded around 8:30 p.m. to Hamilton Avenue and Lakenoll Drive and found Grimes with a gunshot wound; he was taken to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center and later pronounced dead. Officials identified him as a Forest Park resident.

The scene was centered on an apartment complex near the intersection, where detectives worked into the night. Within days investigators said eyewitness accounts, cell-phone records and automated license-plate reader footage from Flock Safety cameras helped point to a suspect. On September 12 officers arrested 19-year-old Daronte Copeland and charged him with murder; a judge set bond at $1,000,000 and prosecutors planned to present the case to a grand jury later in September. As of mid-September, no other suspects had been publicly named.

Family statements and community memorials reflected shock and grief in Mount Healthy and Forest Park. If anyone has information about what happened that night or knew Brandon, please share what you know.