Frightening Footage Of Thug Who Ambushed Cops In Dark Boarding House In Cleveland

A 42-year-old Cleveland man is charged in connection with the shooting of a city police officer.

Darryl Borden is charged with two counts of attempted murder and two counts of felonious assault. He is being held in the Cuyahoga County Jail and is expected to make his first court appearance on Wednesday.

Borden “waited to ambush” the officers before he shot 26-year-old police officer Jennifer Kilnapp in the arm and back, according to police and court records. She is expected to recover.

Kilnapp has been a Cleveland police officer for just shy of three years. She was acting as a training officer for her 24-year-old partner when she was shot, Cleveland police spokeswoman Sgt. Jennifer Ciaccia said.

The shooting happened about 3 a.m. Monday at what police described as a boarding house on East 81st Street and Euclid Avenue.

A woman called police and reported that Borden threatened her with a gun and fired a shot through a bedroom floor, according to police. The woman was unharmed and waited for police outside the home.

Kilnapp and her partner, Bailey Gannon, a rookie who started as a full-time officer in January, arrived at the house and went inside, according to police and court records. They found Borden in a second-floor bathroom with the door closed, police said.

Borden hid in the bathroom with his gun pointed at the door “waiting to ambush” the officers and shoot them when they arrived, according to court records.

The officers opened the door and Borden fired shots at the officers, hitting Kilnapp, according to police. Gannon fired shots back as the officers ran outside. No shots hit Borden.

Cleveland police officers and a SWAT team surrounded the house. Police arrested Borden inside the home a short time later and found a gun inside the home, according to police.

Borden has a criminal history that includes convictions in 15 felony cases dating to 1999. He was sentenced to two years in prison after violating the terms of his probation after he pleaded guilty to burglary and sexual battery in 2000. Part of his sentence required him to register his address with the county sheriff as a sex offender.

In that case, he is accused of pushed his way into a woman’s apartment, held her down and sexually assaulted her, according to court records.

More recently, Borden pleaded guilty to robbery and unauthorized use of a car in 2018. He violated the terms of his probation and was sentenced to nine months in prison. He was released in August 2019 and is on post-prison parole supervision until August 2022, according to state prison records.

Convictions in other cases are for deception to obtain dangerous drugs, drug possession, failing to verify his address with the county sheriff, carrying concealed weapons, receiving stolen property and drug possession.