Caleb Yafaath Simpson was 28 and from Cincinnati, born December 31, 1994. He was shot and killed on the evening of Saturday, January 28, 2023, on the 1600 block of Pulte Street in the North Fairmount neighborhood. First responders pronounced him dead at the scene and the Cincinnati Police Department’s Homicide Unit opened an investigation.

Within weeks investigators made arrests. On February 10, 2023, police apprehended 21-year-old Lucion Vaughn Jr. and charged him with murder; Vaughn was later indicted and held on $1 million bail. A second man, 22-year-old Clark Jefferson, was arrested and charged with murder on March 7 and was arraigned on March 8, 2023. As of March 2023 police had not publicly released a motive and the investigation remained ongoing.

Anyone with information about the homicide is asked to call the Cincinnati Police Department’s Homicide Unit at 513-352-3542.