Cory Shaffer
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Reporter for cleveland.com covering issues affecting Cuyahoga County's largest suburban communities: Lakewood, Rocky River, Parma, Euclid, Cleveland Heights and Shaker Heights.
08/16/2024
Paul and Ashley Brandich seem like a normal suburban Cleveland couple. Until they tell you that they own a 67-foot windmill.
The regular couple breathing new life into 70-year-old windmill Paul and Ashley Brandich may seem like a normal couple. Then they tell you that they own a 67-foot windmill in Lorain.
11/16/2016
I'm in court for the beginning of the death penalty phase in the trial of convicted Warrensville Heights barbershop shooter Douglas Shine Jr.
Death penalty phase begins in Warrensville Heights barbershop trial Jurors on Wednesday will hear arguments on whether they should recommend convicted Warrensville Heights barbershop killer Douglas Shine Jr. be sentenced to death.
11/04/2016
Douglas Shine Jr. now faces the possibility of ex*****on after jurors on Friday convicted him in a spree of violence that culminated Feb. 5, 2015, when he walked into Chalk Linez Barbershop and executed one man, killed two others and wounded three more.
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Douglas Shine guilty of murder in Warrensville Heights barbershop triple killing Douglas Shine Jr. faces ex*****on after jurors convicted him in the slayings of four people, including three at a Warrensville Heights barbershop and one witness in 2015.
10/28/2016
"I robbed Mr. Hero's and shot the little boy, which killed him," Daveion Perry wrote in a written confession two days after he was arrested in the Oct. 14 slaying of 15-year-old Sunny Ravi Patel, who was working at his uncle's restaurant in Cleveland Heights. Perry was sentenced to life in prison without parole this afternoon.
Cleveland Heights Mr. Hero shooter gets life in prison following surprise plea Daveion Perry pleaded guilty earlier this week to the Oct. 14 shooting inside Cleveland Heights Mr. Hero that left 15-year-old Sunny Patel dead.
08/16/2016
The pre-dawn raid on Pratt Avenue near East 95th Street is in connection with a recent string of smash-and-grab ATM thefts that stretched across Cleveland, Strongsville and Parma, according to law enforcement officials.
Police, SWAT raid Cleveland home, arrest several in multi-city 'crime spree' Police from Cleveland, Strongsville and Parma on Tuesday raided a Union Miles home and arrested several people in connection with an ongoing "crime spree" in those cities.
08/15/2016
A sign of the times.
Man suffers he**in overdose in bathroom of Cleveland police station A 34-year-old Maple Heights man had to be revived by paramedics in the lobby of a Cleveland police station Saturday after he overdosed on he**in in the station's bathroom.
08/02/2016
The family of Skye Mockabee thinks she was killed because of her identity as a transgender woman. Cleveland police are still investigating the circumstances surrounding her death.
Cleveland family thinks transgender woman was killed because of sexual identity Skye Mockabee, the 26-year-old Cleveland woman who was found dead in a parking lot Saturday morning, was reported missing after she got into the van of a man she had met online, her boyfriend said.
08/01/2016
A Cuyahoga County protective services officer was involved in a shooting inside the Galleria at Erieview in downtown Cleveland Monday morning. It appears early media reports of the officer taking fire were inaccurate. Details are still coming out. cleveland.com will keep you updated.
Officer involved in shooting in downtown Cleveland An officer with the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department's protective services unit was involved in a shooting Monday morning in downtown Cleveland.
07/26/2016
On July 25 in the year 2016, at about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, two men began debating politics at a Cleveland bar. Then, one shot the other and fled in a Cadillac truck.
Argument over presidential politics leads to bar shooting in Cleveland A man pulled a gun and shot another man in the leg inside a Cleveland bar after the two got into an argument about the 2016 presidential election, police said.
07/25/2016
In case you missed it, here's my piece from Friday looking at the performance and tactics of Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams, who was the subject of national praise following the Republican National Convention.
Cleveland police chief Calvin Williams proves level-headed leader during high-pressure RNC Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams' cool presence and steady leadership of 3,300 police officers during the RNC helped to reshape the national perception of the city and its police.
07/25/2016
Natalie Perez's death was originally investigated as a homicide, and sparked . But the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office has ruled the 21-year-old woman died when she ingested a fatal dose of fentanyl in April, before a group of teenagers found her body in a vacant Cleveland house.
Woman found dead in abandoned Cleveland house overdosed on fentanyl, officials say Natalie Perez, 21, of Garfield Heights, overdosed on the drug fentanyl before a group of teenagers found her body in an abandoned house on Cleveland's East Side in April, according to the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office.
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