Torell Hemphill, 35, was found with a gunshot wound just before midnight on June 14, 2025, in the 800 block of Lincoln Avenue in Walnut Hills. Officers arriving around 11:50 p.m. and Cincinnati Fire transported Hemphill to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, where he later died. Another person at the scene was grazed by a bullet and treated by first responders.

Police did not immediately release what led up to the shooting. The Homicide Unit asked anyone with information to come forward. In the weeks after the killing, detectives identified a suspect; on July 16, 2025, 19-year-old Dyshown Sockwell was arrested and charged with murder and two counts of felonious assault in connection with Hemphill’s death. Investigators did not disclose a motive, and the case remained under active investigation.

The neighborhood had seen multiple shootings that year, and authorities urged tips to help reconstruct how the confrontation began and who else might know what happened on Lincoln Avenue that night. If anyone witnessed the shooting or knows anything about Torell Hemphill’s last hours, please share information with investigators.