Geoffrey CasonCuyahoga County jail CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Cleveland man is charged in connection with a Friday shooting and SWAT standoff at an apartment building on the city’s West Side.
Geoffrey Cason Jr., 29, is charged with first-degree kidnapping, according to court records.
He appeared for arraignment Monday, where a judge set his bond at $50,000, bound his case over to a Cuyahoga County grand jury and ordered him to have no contact with the victim.
The victim, a 29-year-old resident of the complex, suffered a gunshot wound to the abdomen during the incident, which happened about 9:30 p.m. in the 11100 block of Clifton Boulevard.
Police have not charged Cason in the shooting itself.
Officers found blood smeared in a hallway and on an apartment door when they entered the building to investigate a report of gunfire, according to a Cleveland police report.
Police tried to make contact with those inside the unit several times, but no Goldenbahis one responded.
On two occasions, officers saw a man who matched Cason’s description stick his head out of a second floor window. He retreated back into the apartment when he spotted officers outside, the report says.
The gunshot victim called his girlfriend a short while later and told her he was shot, prompting police to call in a bonus veren siteler SWAT team.
Another friend eventually talked the victim into coming outside, where paramedics rushed him to MetroHealth. The victim told his friend that Cason would not let him leave the apartment prior to that, but he refused to elaborate when officers questioned him at the hospital, the report says.
SWAT officers arrested Cason and he was charged on Sunday. He remains in custody.
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