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Welcome back to Upstate As She Do. Let me introduce you to Shantez Olari, age 38. He
has an extensive criminal history and in August of 2025 he was released from prison and was placed
on three years of supervised parole and on April 29th he decided to do this.
This police cruiser video shows an officer attempting to pull over a driver in a white
suburban. The time is 7 18 p.m. Multiple attempts to use his siren to get the driver to pull over.
The driver fails to stop. 14 minutes later at 7 32 p.m. other officers spot the suspect walking
on the road and the gunman is shot multiple times by officers returning fire and later dies. The
officer survived. There's no doubt in my mind that what I know that this suspect meant to kill.
Shantez Olari was released from prison in August of last year. He was given three years of post
release control but at the time of the shooting he was a violator at large meaning the state
had no idea where he was. Now listen to this part. Ohio's got some big problem. According to the
Department of Corrections, Olari was a parole violator at large since April 7th after serving
time for felony assault. Currently there are more than 1,600 post-release control violators
across the state according to state records. 1,600 of them. They don't know where they're at. They
could be in your town. Hell they could be in my town. Now listen to what this soft-spoken
nitwit has to say. No we don't know where they are but we are continuously looking for those folks.
We question the state prison system about the issue in July of last year after a violator at
large with a violent past cut off his ankle bracelet and was later arrested and charged
for the murder of a Cincinnati man. Where is the supervision failure if they're allowed to just
skip and no one knows where they are? Well I wouldn't characterize it as allowing them to
skip. What would you characterize it as? Um we do a really good job of supervising folks. I can't
believe that just came out of his mouth. Yet you don't know where 1,600 felons are running around.
Lowry was locked up for another shooting in Ashtabula County and on supervised release by
the Adult Parole Authority. On April 7th the state declared Lowry violated that supervision was
dangerous and at large. Now I'm asking the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections
when they last had contact with Lowry, the conditions of his post-release control and if
was issued an ankle monitor or other tracking device. However I asked ODRC some of those same
questions in 2023 when it came to another offender just released. Rico Hickson committed a string of
armed robberies and killed the owner of a South Columbus carryout when he was also on supervised
release. In response the state told me then that specific details regarding supervision history
and conditions of supervision are not public. So we're asking the governor about this lack of
transparency regarding the supervision of violent offenders. Well good luck with that one honey. You
think the governor is going to let public records out that's going to make him look bad on his watch.
