Overview
- The family filed a wrongful-death suit in August 2026 naming the City of Cincinnati, the city manager, communications leaders and two dispatchers while not naming the officer who struck 19-year-old Amir Jordan.
- The complaint says a call about a damaged windshield and an earlier firearm discharge was coded as a Priority 1 shooting and was not downgraded after callers told dispatchers no one had been shot.
- The suit cites CAD timestamps showing a dispatcher entered “ACCIDENT FIRE OF WEAPON NO ONE SHOT” at 5:56 p.m. and says a cruiser struck Jordan six seconds later as he crossed near Este and Chickering avenues on Aug. 29, 2024.
- Plaintiffs allege supervisors warned communications leadership of rising miscoding in October 2022 and again in June 2024 but that managers failed to audit, retrain staff, or change classification rules, and that some officials later gave the family a misleading account of why officers were responding.
- The family seeks monetary damages and court-ordered reforms to call classification, training, auditing and quality-assurance systems, a news conference has been held to publicize the filing, and the city declined to comment because of pending litigation; the suit follows prior local scrutiny after a 2021 911-related settlement.