{"id":27172,"date":"2024-05-13T03:10:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T08:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=27172"},"modified":"2024-05-13T03:10:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T08:10:54","slug":"ohio-police-officer-military-veteran-killed-in-line-of-duty-ambush-suspect-found-dead-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=27172","title":{"rendered":"Ohio police officer, military veteran killed in line-of-duty ambush, suspect found dead: report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A manhunt has ended in Ohio for the suspect who killed a military veteran, who was part of the Euclid Police Department for less than a year, during an ambush on Saturday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">According to WJW, just before 10 p.m. on Saturday, Euclid police officer Jacob Derbin, 23, was killed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/homicide\"><u>when a gunman ambushed<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;him during a disturbance call to a residence.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Derbin was taken to a local hospital, but succumbed to his injuries, WJW reported.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The suspect, who Euclid Police have identified as Deshawn Anthony Vaughn, 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Multiple law enforcement agencies were assisting the Euclid Police Department in locating Vaughn, who was described as being around 6&#8217;3, 215 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Police believe Vaughn, who is a convicted felon and was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\"><u>wanted for violating conditions<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;of his community supervision, fled the scene following the fatal shooting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">On Sunday evening, WJW reported that the manhunt for Vaughn was over as he had been found deceased inside a residence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Police told WJW he was heavily armed, and it is not yet clear how he died, but an investigation is ongoing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Euclid Police Chief Scott Meyer told WJW that Derbin was an &#8220;incredible&#8221; person and that the entire department was &#8220;devastated.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;He was an amazing human being. Just a great heart. Had an incredible smile. The world\u2019s a better place with him in it,&#8221; Meyer said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Derbin&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/police-and-law-enforcement\"><u>had been an officer<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;with the department for the last 10 months, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost released a statement and vowed to make sure that justice is served.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The promise to protect is signed with the blood of our officers. The killer who ambushed Officer Derbin will be found and will receive the full measure of justice,&#8221; Yost wrote in a statement on X.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Yost continued his post, sharing his condolences with the family of Derbin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8220;It is a cruel irony that a mother lost her son on Mother\u2019s Day, and that this murder happened just as we prepare to solemnize our fallen during Police Memorial Week. My heart burns with anger at this injustice, for the family of this young officer and the Euclid Police Department.&#8221; Derbin was in his first year with the department,&#8221; &#8211; Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Ohio Governor Mike DeWine also offered his condolences to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/midwest\/ohio\"><u>community of Euclid.<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Fran and I offer our deepest condolences to Euclid Police Officer Jacob Derbin&#8217;s family and his brothers and sisters at @Euclid_PD. His bravery and dedication to the Euclid community will not be forgotten,&#8221; DeWine wrote in post on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">DeWine proclaimed that in honor of the life and service of Officer Derbin, all flags would be flown at half-staff on all public buildings amid grounds throughout Cuyahoga County, the Ohio Statehouse, the Vern Riffle Center, and the Rhodes State Office Tower on Sunday and will remain at half-staff until sunset on the day of his funeral. He added that all public buildings across the state of Ohio could also participate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Derbin was engaged to Liv Wuebker. The couple were set to be married on July 27 in Minister, Ohio, according to their wedding page on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theknot.com\/us\/jacob-derbin-and-liv-wuebker-jul-2024\"><u>The Knot.<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;An awful tragedy. We are going to miss you Jacob. Thank for serving your country in Kuwait, and continuing to serve and protect your community when you came back. Most of all, thank you for coming into our family and loving all of us. Especially Liv. You\u2019ll always be part of our family, and forever my first brother. We will always miss you,&#8221; Skylar Wuebker, the soon-to-be brother-in-law of Officer Derbin, wrote in a post on Facebook.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Fox News Digital reached out to the Euclid Police Department for comment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/ohio-police-officer-military-veteran-killed-line-duty-ambush-suspect-at-large\">foxnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A manhunt has ended in Ohio for the suspect who killed a military veteran, who was part of the Euclid Police Department for less than a year, during an ambush on Saturday night. According to WJW, just before 10 p.m. on Saturday, Euclid police officer Jacob Derbin, 23, was killed&nbsp;when a gunman ambushed&nbsp;him during a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[28374,1884,1830,1237,4334,2136],"class_list":["post-27172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-ambush","tag-killed","tag-ohio","tag-police","tag-suspects","tag-veterans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27174,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27172\/revisions\/27174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}