He started kicking the door in. I hurried up and ran away from my door. I called 911 and I ran to my room. I tried to hide and call 911. So, let me ask you, why didn't you stick around when we showed up? WHAT DO YOU MEAN? OKAY. Go ahead. What are you talking about, bro? >> All right. On January 1st, 2025, during the late hours of the night, approximately 3:00 a.m., the incident began when police received a report of an individual attempting to break into a residential apartment. Come on out here. Is my cousin with me out here? What's your name? Dante. What apartment are you in? 24. What's your name? Ashton, what's up? Please. Okay, I'll let you go. Thank you. All right. Which apartment is he in? Was that them? Are they black? Mixed. Mixed. He's mixed. Oh, how tall? What was he What was he wearing? Blue shirt. Okay. Did he have a hat on? I don't think so. Okay. Probably up there with him. Did he have front Do you know if he lives with anyone? He lives with his mom upstairs. Down on stairs? What do you mean? Which apartment is it? I don't know the number. 20 All right. All right, just stay here for a minute. Are you hurt in any way? Did he touch you? What's his name? Gavin? Gavin. Gavin Gavin. You said it You said his name was Gavin what? Bell. Bell. All right. Just hang out here for a minute. Do you know how he got dropped off? Who dropped him off? Um after he had talked to Okay, so what I had heard is he rear-ended somebody, the police let him off with a ticket, and then my grandpa dropped him off here. Okay. Like we were going to get his car, but it was not there, so Okay. >> They just Did he live in this apartment? Uh when he was home, yeah, but last night I heard he was looking for his keys. I can't believe he was ordered to B&E. Were you guys all asleep? I was heading to sleep. Did you hear any of this? I heard banging. I didn't know what it was. I was just right inside there. Boom. Boom. Boom. I was hoping that it wasn't him. I can't look. 58 to Maple. Okay. So what happened? Um He came back to my apartment, and I could hear him trying to get my door open, and then I could He went upstairs. I left him alone. I've been blocking everything he's been trying to reach me on. Um and then I could hear him trying to pick up my locks, and that's when I told him, "Hey, I don't want you in here. Please go up like go upstairs. Like if you if you come in, I'm calling 911." cuz I was I'm very scared right now. I understand that. 3:00 in the morning, and someone's kicking your door. And um he just kept proceeding. Um he started kicking the door in. I hurried up and ran away from my door. I called 911, and I ran to my room. Okay. It's okay. You're allowed to be scared. That's a scary situation. So you said you broke up with him today, earlier today at some point. Okay, and then where did he go from there? Did Did you guys break up Were you Did you break up with him in >> it that way. Okay. did he live here with you though no okay he stayed up with his mom okay did you guys break up in person did you do it over a phone text He's been he's been trying to reach you since then all day you've been here all day No okay I got an Uber home safely okay I can't go to sleep because I'm so shaken up from like the argument we had so That was earlier when you guys broke up or whatever okay Okay do you have anybody that you can call to stay with tonight okay do you want to come back to our police department to hang out there while you get a ride or something or go stay with someone would that be okay okay I can talk to you further there if you want to gather some stuff To call the people um And Angela's at this place to find fixes Yeah well you know that would be a the landlord or something but I mean for now we can At least try and close it up as best we could So I I don't want the door to be perfect to get it Okay well do you have your landlord's number or the person you rent from okay why don't you gather some stuff gather some things for the night we'll go back to the police department you can call your landlord there and figure and then figure out your ride or whatever wherever you want to stay tonight okay okay Just going to gather some stuff she's going to take a ride back to the department She's going to call the landlord cuz she's got valuables in there He said the guy that was at the stairs Yeah he said he just heard banging while he was here >> So they had an argument earlier today and that's when they broke it off. She said he'd been trying to contact her throughout the day and she hasn't responded or anything. She's been blocking him. She said she got an Uber ride back here. Are you related to this guy? Well, how are you related? He's my cousin. Your cousin? His cousin? What about the other guy? Same thing. Cousins? Has anything like this ever happened before? With him? Nothing like this. No. The only thing I got is he was looking for his keys inside of his place. It's crazy that he resorted to kicking somebody's door. So he said he was looking for his keys to get back into this apartment up here? Okay. Do you know where he would go? Does he have any friends or anything here in Oberlin? Nowhere close. He said he was in Lorraine earlier though. That's where he got into a car accident or whatever. Yeah, and then he got dropped off here by the driver. Okay. What's he Did he Did you talk to him at all? Yeah, he came in there trying to get us to get on the game and I was already half asleep so I told him to go. And then he And then he came in like searching for his keys then he was like, "Oh, look, I'm going to jail, guys." Came in there searching for his keys? Yeah, I told him >> Even though he was already inside the apartment? >> Yeah, this was after the banging and everything. Okay. And then he left and then I came out here and you all walked up. Okay. I mean, there's nothing really you can do with this. I mean, all we can do is call the landlord. Best you can try and get a hold of him. We got his number, too, so. All right, thanks, man. All right, man. All right. >> What's up? You good? We're good. Does he have anywhere else in town he's going to be? I don't know. He said he doesn't have any friends here. I asked him. He would go anywhere. He said not anywhere close. What the hell is going on? What's going on, bro? What is going on? I don't know. You tell me. You tell me. No, you tell me. What the games would you do? You tell me. You know what you did. You tell me, man. You're putting handcuffs on me right now. >> You're good. Thanks. Exactly. What the Okay. Right. Exactly. What the He said you tell me. Like, what the hell? So, let me ask you. Why didn't you stick around when we showed up? WHAT DO YOU MEAN? OKAY. Go ahead. What are you talking about, bro? What are you talking about, dude? I got it. Okay. >> Written statement from you. Okay. Please try to have a seat in that room to the left right there. And then um in a few minutes when we get him back to the jail, I'll have you come back and positively ID him. Make sure that that's him. Okay? You don't have to You don't have to see him. You don't have to look at him. Make sure. All right. >> [snorts] >> You didn't even tell me you're arresting me. She's She's calling her family. >> told me what I'm under arrest for. >> Huh? Yeah. You didn't even