Harry Edward Nelson III, known to family and friends as Trey, was a 19-year-old White man who was fatally shot in Cincinnati’s Clifton neighborhood during the early morning hours of August 18, 2026. Police were sent to the 3400 block of Brookline Avenue shortly after 2:14 a.m. after reports of gunfire. Nelson was found unresponsive farther along Brookline Avenue and was pronounced dead at the scene; another person suffering non-life-threatening gunshot injuries went to Good Samaritan Hospital.

Investigators say the violence began as a planned robbery. Cincinnati police arrested Kevin Couch, Matthew Napier and Kayden Moore and charged all three in Hamilton County Municipal Court with murder and aggravated robbery. Detectives allege the robbery plan was carried out that morning and a struggle over a firearm developed; Nelson was shot during that struggle. Early court proceedings showed disputed accounts of each defendant’s role, bonds were set (Napier $2 million, Moore $1.5 million, Couch $1.5 million) and the Homicide Unit continued its investigation.

Trey was born in Cincinnati on April 13, 2007, and is survived by parents, siblings, grandparents and extended family. Does anyone have information about Nelson or the events on Brookline Avenue that morning?