Five people were injured, some of them minors, in a shooting that happened in West End on Friday night, leaving one person dead, according to police. Just before 9:30 p.m., ShotSpotter, the gunshot detection system, sent out a series of alarms, prompting Cincinnati police to the area of Jones and Wades streets.
Five other people were hurt and brought to nearby hospitals, according to Chief Teresa Theetge, while one person passed away at the scene of the incident. She acknowledged that a few of the victims were younger than eighteen. It was unclear to Theetge if the victim was an adult or a child when they passed away.
Three patients at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center were confirmed to have gunshot wounds on Friday night by hospital officials. The three patients’ conditions, according to spokeswoman Nanette Bentley, are serious but stable.
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According to Theetge, there is no evidence of a persistent hazard to the general public. She stated that the goal of the investigation is to find out what preceded the incident.
She declared that the violence was intolerable and that her officers were making every effort to apprehend the offender or offenders. Notifying the victims’ families is still a task for the officers. From little beyond the crime tape, people were shouting while.
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“I’m angry too,” Theetge remarked. “This is happening too often. People are reverting to gun violence rather than resolving disputes in a humane manner. It is not humane to pull out a firearm and shoot individuals recklessly.”
Save Our Youth − Kings & Queens founder Mitch Morris responded to West End on Friday night. Morris is an experienced interventionist for violence. The scene, he observed, was tragic.
Cincinnati Police Department confirmed at least one person died and at least five others were wounded in a mass shooting Friday night in the city’s west end:
“We cannot play multiple choice with what the solution is right now,” Morris stated. “We have to be laser-focused on our youth.”
The shooting on Friday will probably make 2023 Cincinnati’s worst-ever year for teen shootings. 47 teenagers, ranging in age from 13 to 17, had been shot in the city so far this year as of Friday. A total of 50 teenagers were shot in 2009, breaking the previous record.
Two teenagers, ages 16 and 14, had been shot in the West End area before Friday. Cincinnati police statistics indicate that there have been another thirty adult shootings there this year. Three homicides have already occurred in the neighbourhood in 2023.
Morris stated that to tackle the issue of youth violence right away, the local government, schools, hospitals, police, and social agencies must all work together. Morris declared, “We have a cancer in our city.” “We have to give it everything we’ve got.”
