An Ohio officer who was gunned down in the line of duty earlier this month may not have heard warnings about the accused cop killer because of a series of failures with police equipment, ABC6 reports.
According to the Columbus station, dispatchers sent out a warning over the police radio after the ex-girlfriend of suspect Herschel Ray Jones III called dispatchers to report that officers in Danville were in danger.
But the police radios have been unreliable for years, sources reportedly told ABC6.
After complaints of static and unintelligible transmissions, the department planned to switch systems by the end of the month.
