New arrest warrants for murder of young mother: I-Team

CLEVELAND (WJW) – The FOX 8 I-Team has found arrest warrants issued for two more suspects wanted in the murder of a young mother killed in a deadly shooting that also led to Cleveland police gunfire.

Cuyahoga County sheriff’s deputies have filed warrants against two men in connection with the death of Antwoina Carter.

Investigators recently released video showing a man hanging out of a car while firing shots at Carter in her car.

A chaotic scene also led police to start shooting, but the medical examiner found the woman was not killed by police gunfire.

It happened on St. Patrick’s Day, before dawn at East 105 and Garfield in Cleveland.

Deputies first filed charges of Aggravated Murder and Murder against 19 year old Trinity Ford. Detectives believe she drove the car used in the shooting.

We’ve learned investigators believe there were two passengers in the car during the shooting, and the new arrest warrants have been issued for them.

The warrants say both suspects did “with prior calculation and design, cause the death.”

Court records show Trinity Ford “did lie to police.”

Investigators wrote, Ford is the “owner of a motor vehicle captured on camera with the passenger shooting his gun and murdering a victim.”

While detectives believe Trinity Ford drove the car, the new complaint says she also had a gun.

The complaint says she did “with prior calculation and design, cause the death of Antwoina Carter.”

Police body camera video gave us the first look at what happened as it happened.

Investigators and law enforcement sources say officers saw cars speeding down the block, and they heard gunshots from one car. Then, officers started firing shots.

On the police video, you hear many gunshots before seeing any cars come into view.

You also then see officers firing shots, taking cover, and calling out, “Shots fired. Shots fired.”

Another video also shows at one point someone leaning out the window of one car shooting at another.

Meantime, the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner found the victim did not die from police gunfire.

Dr. Thomas P. Gilson said, “Preliminary testing does not indicate that police activity was directly responsible for the decedent’s death.”

The Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department is investigating since the case involved Cleveland police using force.

While deputies have made an arrest for Obstructing Justice, they are still working to identify and arrest the gunman seen on the video firing shots.

This week the sheriff’s department said at the scene that police found Antwoina Carter at a vehicle that crashed.

The other vehicle took off.

Police had gone there after getting a 911 call just before 4 a.m. from a woman identifying herself as Antwoina Carter.
She said someone was sitting outside her house who’d been threatening her.

Police say they also had been told someone had shot out a car window, but they did not shoot into the house.

As the city released the body camera video, Police Chief Dorothy Todd also released a recorded statement. 

She stressed that Cleveland police are not releasing many details now with the case under investigation by another agency.

She said the video is only a small part of the investigation.

Law enforcement sources have told the I-Team that the officers believed someone was shooting at them.

The police union president has said he can’t comment on specifics with the investigation pending. But Sunday, Andy Gasiewski said, “100%, there was an element of self-defense.”