Cincinnati police have shot and killed three people in the past five years including the man killed Thursday night near Music Hall.

In April 2022, Ali Coulter was wanted on a murder warrant and police located him in Covington. Body camera showed that Coulter was armed when he confronted the officers and did not follow orders to drop the gun.

In July 2022, Leonard Brewington was fatally shot in Madisonville. Body camera footage shows him drawing and pointing a gun at an officer approaching him. The officer was called to the address to investigate a report of a man driving erratically.

The man killed Thursday was identified as 48-year-old Juan Mack. Police said he had stabbed a woman leaving her in critical condition. When officers attempted to stop him he fled from Cincinnati’s West Side to Over-the-Rhine. Police attempted to get him to drop the gun he was carrying, but Chief Teresa Theetge said he raised the weapon and was shot.

Prior to these shootings, the last fatal police shooting in the city was in 2018 when Cincinnati officers shot and killed Omar Santa Perez at the Fifth Third Center after he opened fire in the lobby killing three people and wounding two others.

Following any police shooting in Cincinnati, the police department holds a press conference within 24 hours of the incident. These press conferences stem from the Collaborative Agreement, the police reform measure struck in the wake of civil unrest following the 2001 killing of Timothy Thomas.

Cincinnati police held a press conference Friday regarding the shooting near Music Hall in Over-the-Rhine.

Cincinnati police have policies outlining both their use of force against suspects and pursuits.

The use of force police emphasizes de-escalation and using the lowest amount of force necessary to achieve an arrest. The department describes force as a continuum.

“Good judgment and the circumstances of each situation will dictate the level on the continuum of force at which an officer will start,” the procedure states.

Theetge said her officer used good tactics on Thursday and their “heroic” actions protected the citizens in a crowded area from further harm. She also said a police sergeant fired multiple less-than-lethal foam rounds at Mack in an attempt to get him to drop his gun.

In 2022, the department narrowed its pursuit policy saying officers would only pursue violent felony offenders. Theetge said Thursday that police considered the stabbing a felonious assault. All pursuits are subject to review by the department, and this pursuit will likely be investigated as well.

Theetge said stop sticks were used during the police pursuit of Mack, but that it was unclear if that is what prompted him to stop near Music Hall. She was asked if police had the opportunity to disable Mack’s vehicle before it entered Over-the-Rhine where there were more people. The chief said her officers do not train in “pit maneuvers,” which involve ramming a car to disable it or make it crash.

Pit maneuvers are dangerous and have resulted in deaths. Multiple departments across the country have stopped using them for safety reasons.

Unlike prior police shootings in Cincinnati, Theetge did not release the names of the officers involved in Thursday’s shooting. She cited Marcy’s Law, which is designed to protect the identity of victims of crime. The Enquirer’s sister paper in Columbus, The Dispatch, has sued over police not releasing officer’s names following a shooting. In Florida, the courts have sided with the press on this issue.

According to the Cincinnati Police Department procedure manual, events like police shootings are automatically reviewed by the internal investigations section. Mayor Aftab Pureval confirmed Friday that in addition the Citizen Complaint Authority will be investigating this shooting.

This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: What to know about police shootings in Cincinnati