BOONE COUNTY, KY. — On Thursday, at 9:00 a.m. deputies from the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office conducted a traffic stop in Cincinnati, Ohio and executed a Boone County, Kentucky arrest warrant on a Cincinnati, Ohio man for the murders of Kelli Kramer and her nine year old son, Aiden Kramer which occurred on or about March 20, 2018. Both died as a result of multiple gunshot wounds to their heads and torsos.
Joshua Ward, 48 of the 11,000 block of Norbourne Drive in Cincinnati, Ohio is *charged with two (2) counts of Murder, a capital offense.
Detectives working the case obtained the arrest warrant on Wednesday, May 30, 2018, and immediately set into a motion a plan with other law enforcement agencies to take Ward into custody in addition to simultaneously serving search warrants in various locations.
Police say Ward was involved in an intimate relationship with Kelli beginning in December 2016 and ending abruptly in May 2017. Ward believed Kramer was responsible for ‘destroying him,’ police said.
Ward is currently being held in the Hamilton County Detention Center awaiting extradition to Kentucky.
