Bodycam footage reveals missing stop sign in crash involving UC nursing student
By Brian Hamrick
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CINCINNATI (WLWT) — Police body camera footage has revealed a missing stop sign at the intersection where a University of Cincinnati nursing student was killed, potentially changing the case against the driver involved.
The body cam footage shows the suspect, Jermaine Isham, struggling with police after the violent crash at Depot and West 8th Street in Lower Price Hill. Isham had to be shocked with a taser multiple times. He was charged with OVI and other charges, but not in causing the death.
Carolyn Peterson, the grandmother of Carlie Berry, the 20-year-old UC nursing student who was killed in the crash, said, “We’re not going away. This is not going away.” She described Berry as “just a beautiful girl inside and out.”
The body cam footage reveals a significant detail: there is no stop sign at the intersection. Peterson said police initially did not charge Isham in Berry’s death because they claimed Berry rolled a stop sign. However, the footage shows that the stop sign did not exist at the time of the crash.
Peterson said, “We want to maybe have a sit down with the prosecutor and talk about charges. Now that it has been confirmed that there was no stop sign.”
The family says the initial accident report from police highlighted the stop sign as if it was there at the time of the crash, but the latest report shows it was not.
The city has not responded to requests for information on why the stop sign was taken down, how long it has been down, and why it wasn’t replaced. A stop sign has since been put in after the crash.
It is unclear if the missing stop sign would make Isham more culpable in the case, but it could make the city more liable.
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