CINCINNATI — Cincinnati police are reporting that a 77-year-old man died this year from injuries he sustained in a shooting nearly 12 years earlier.
In a release, police said Gregory Tramble was shot on the 1400 block of Apjones Street in Northside on Feb. 20, 2014.
Per our previous reporting, police said two teens came up to Tramble, who was sitting on his porch, and demanded his backpack. When Tramble refused to hand it over, the two shot him in the stomach and ran away. Tramble was taken to UC Medical Center with what police called life-threatening injuries.
On Feb. 6, 2026, police said Tramble "succumbed to his injuries related to the shooting."
CPD's Homicide Unit is investigating Tramble's death. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 513-352-3542.
WATCH: Former Hamilton County chief assistant prosecutor discusses the case
We spoke with former Hamilton County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Mark Piepmeier about the case, now being investigated as a homicide.
"It's very unique, mainly because the amount of time that passed," he said. "It's pretty unusual for that much time to pass to be able to actually go back and prosecute, but I would think they'll take a shot at it."
CPD has not released any information about potential suspects.
We reached out to the Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office. A spokesperson said the office has no information to share at this time regarding the case, and wouldn't until a suspect is potentially arrested.
In his 44-year law career, Piepmeier said he has seen but a handful of cases like Tramble's.
One case he pointed us to was that of Derrick Turnbow. In 1990, the 16-year-old Taft High School honor student was hit by a bullet fired at someone else during a street fight outside the school. Turnbow was paralyzed from the neck down and only able to breathe out of a ventilator tube. He ultimately died from those injuries about a year and a half later in October 1991.
"The person was originally charged with felonious assault for shooting him," Piepmeier said. "He died two years later. We went back and indicted him, and he was prosecuted and convicted of murder."
Piepmeier said the key to prosecution will be connecting Tramble's death directly to the shooting.
"If the coroner can say, but for him being shot, he should have been alive today," Piepmeier said. "Then you got the case."
