Cincinnati police have arrested the man they say shot and killed Eugene Walls five months ago in the Walnut Hills neighbourhood. Jaeshaun Camper, 25, was taken into custody on Friday, October 30, and has been charged with murder and felonious assault in the May 20 shooting, the Cincinnati Police Department said in reports published on Monday, November 2.

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The shooting itself happened on Wednesday, May 20, 2026, in the 2400 block of May Street in Walnut Hills, on Cincinnati's near east side. Officers who responded found Eugene Walls, 40, with a gunshot wound to the chest. Walls was taken to University Hospital, where he died.

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A second Cincinnati station, WKRC, reported on Monday that Camper has been indicted on the murder and felonious assault charges — meaning a grand jury has found enough evidence for the case to proceed as a felony prosecution — and that he is accused of shooting Walls in the chest in the area of May and Morgan streets. Court documents do not indicate what may have led up to the fatal shooting, WKRC reported, and police have not publicly described a motive.

Source: WKRC Local 12 Cincinnati

Five months between the shooting and the arrest

The gap between May 20 and this arrest is the shape of the case: a man was shot in a residential block in the evening, died in hospital, and for more than five months Cincinnati's Homicide Unit worked the case without a public arrest. Police have not said what evidence — witness accounts, video, or forensic work — finally led detectives to Camper, and they said on Monday that the investigation is still ongoing, which usually means detectives are still asking for witnesses to come forward even after an arrest.

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Camper was booked into the Hamilton County Justice Center, the county jail in downtown Cincinnati, and is expected back in court on Friday, November 6, according to WXIX. That hearing is the next fixed point in the case, when the felony case moves forward in Hamilton County court.

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The neighbourhood where it happened

Walnut Hills is one of Cincinnati's oldest hilltop neighbourhoods, on the near east side of the city above downtown, with Eden Park at its gateway and the University of Cincinnati less than ten minutes away. The neighbourhood takes its name from Walnut Hill, the farm of the Reverend James Kemper, an early settler, and it was annexed into the City of Cincinnati in September 1869. May Street, where Walls was shot, runs through its residential blocks a few streets from the historic Peebles Corner commercial district at McMillan and Gilbert avenues.

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For a neighbourhood in the middle of a long redevelopment — restoring old buildings and opening new businesses alongside Victorian-era homes and historic districts — a fatal shooting on a residential street, and a five-month wait for an arrest, is exactly the kind of case residents measure police clearance work by. Monday's arrest closes the 'who' question only in the legal sense: it opens the court case that has to prove it.

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What happens next

Camper's November 6 court appearance is the next step. Between now and then, Cincinnati police say the investigation continues, and anyone with information about the May 20 shooting on May Street is asked to contact the department's Homicide Unit at 513-352-3542. Police have not announced any other arrests in the case, and no trial date has been set.

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Awaaz Punjab will follow the case at the November 6 hearing — in particular whether prosecutors lay out, for the first time, what they say happened between Walls and Camper on May 20, and what evidence ties the accused to a shooting that, until Friday, had produced no public suspect for more than five months.

Source: WKRC Local 12 Cincinnati