From The Vault: Cincinnati mourns slain police officers Daniel Pope, Ronald Jeter

One of the worst tragedies to hit the Cincinnati police department happened 20 years ago on Dec. 5, 1997. Specialist Ronald Jeter and Officer Daniel Pope, had gone to 23 West Hollister St., two blocks south of the University of Cincinnati campus, to arrest 20-year-old Alonzo Davenport on domestic violence warrants. Davenport ambushed the two officers and shot them to death in his Clifton Heights apartment. The killer ran up the street and turned the gun on himself barely a block from UC. As police responded to calls about a suicide on the sidewalk, dispatchers got confused and didn’t send help to the mortally wounded officers, even after getting a frantic call from inside the apartment. “I see two undercover cops lying in front of my face, with bullets. They dead, man!” the caller said. Another officer didn’t arrive at the apartment until 49 minutes after the shootings.