TOLEDO, Ohio — Neighbors on Avondale Avenue are speaking out just a day after Toledo police officers shot and killed an armed man.
TPD said Albert Alderman, 33, was wanted for allegedly strangling his 29-year-old girlfriend, Kelsie Barnier, only hours before his death.
It all started just a block away on the 900 block of North Byrne Road at the home of Alderman and Barnier. Even before Sunday's violence, neighbors told WTOL 11 that they could always hear the couple fighting.
Alderman has a documented history of violent behavior, charged with domestic violence in May and negligent assault in June of 2023.
Court documents said officers and dispatchers at the time of the May incident even heard Alderman threaten to kill Barnier.
Alderman was found guilty of negligent assault in October and he was sentenced to 60 days at the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio and a year of probation.
But only three months later, Alderman was calling TPD dispatchers telling them Barnier wasn't breathing. He gave a statement to police, but when the coroner ruled her death a homicide and officers came back, he decided to run.
Toledo police said Alderman stepped out of his vehicle on Avondale Avenue and pulled a gun on officers who in turn opened fire, ending his life.
"Police, they said, 'Drop the gun, drop the gun, drop the gun,' and next thing I know I hear, 'Pop pop pop,'" said Osa Oshodin, a resident on Avondale who watched the whole thing play out from his bedroom window. He watched Alderman's body hit the street and said it sat there for six hours before the coroner's office came to pick it up.
"There was blood and they covered him up with plastic," said Oshodin.
Oshodin said those images will stick with him far longer than he would like.
"This is my first time I've seen a gunshot. I've seen it on TV, but never in real life," said Oshodin. "I couldn't sleep last night."
Oshodin's neighbor, Damon Cook, wasn't present for the shooting but he came home from work in time to see the chaos, and much like Oshodin, is haunted by what he saw lying on the street.
"To actually see a homicide body in real life, that's my first time," said Cook.
It was the first time for Cook's kids too. They heard the shots and looked out the window. Now, Cook is trying to figure out how to talk to his kids about what they saw.
"They're kind of sheltered kids, they haven't really been exposed to anything like that before," said Cook.
Police said all officers who fired their weapons will be placed on administrative leave while the incident is investigated, which is standard practice when an officer fires their weapon.
In addition, police said they will release bodycam and dashcam footage at a news conference on Thursday, Jan. 18 at 3:30 p.m.
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