Whitford remembers vividly the call to 20 N. Grand Ave. in Fort Thomas.
"We had an active shooter," he said. Workers were hanging out of third-floor windows when eight officers arrived. One noticed that a co-worker's car was parked in the lot. "She was not upstairs," Whitford said.
That's when he and other police officers headed into the building.
"You could smell the gunfire," he recalled. He stepped over the body of a dead man, later identified as D.J. Mathis, with a gun near him.
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