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International Desk:\u00a0 At least 18 people were shot, including four killed, as gunfire erupted in several places in the City of Cincinnati in Ohio overnight, authorities said Sunday.<\/p>\nInternational Desk:\u00a0 At least 18 people were shot, including four killed, as gunfire erupted in several places in the City of Cincinnati in Ohio overnight, authorities said Sunday.<\/p>\n
Officers responded just after 12:30 am Sunday to the Avondale neighborhood and found 21-year-old Antonio Blair with gunshot wounds, police said in a statement. He was taken to University Hospital and died there, they said. Three other gunshot victims were also taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n
At about 2:15 am, officers responded to a report of gunfire in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood where 10 people were shot, police said. One died at the scene and another at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center; they were identified in a statement as 34-year-old Robert Rogers and 30-year-old Jaquiez Grant.<\/p>\n
Three people were shot at about midnight Saturday in the Walnut Hills neighbourhood, about a block away from the Harriet Beecher Stowe house, police said.<\/p>\n
News outlets reported the shootings took place within 60 to 90 minutes of each other, but Assistant Police Chief Paul Neudigate told reporters that they \u201cseem to be separate independent incidents but horrific and tragic.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police didn\u2019t immediately provide details about the fourth fatal shooting but confirmed that it occurred on the city\u2019s West End, where television news reports indicated that one person was shot later Sunday morning and was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
No suspect information was immediately available in any of the cases.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne extremely violent night in the city of Cincinnati. Looking at possibly 17 victims, up to four that could be fatal at this time. Why? That\u2019s going to be the question,\u201d Neudigate had said before the fourth shooting was announced.<\/p>\n
Cincinnati\u2019s police chief later Sunday called the level of violence \u201cunacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am calling on all citizens of this great city to say enough is enough! We must not sit by silently and say we can\u2019t do anything to end gun violence,\u201d Chief Eliot Isaac said in a statement. \u201cWe all have a moral obligation to stop the violence and stop the killing in our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police said the department would shift officers from other assignments to beef up the number of uniformed officers in the affected communities and would call on federal prosecutors and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives \u201cto focus on repeat shooters and aggressively bring illegal gun charges.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mayor John Cranley called it \u201csenseless gun violence that ruined lives and will cause immeasurable suffering\u201d at a time the city was facing \u201cunprecedented circumstances and challenges\u201d in fighting crime during the Covid-19 pandemic. He said the city has seen an uptick as people gather in private homes and public places when the bars close.<\/p>\n
\u201cGuns are far too prevalent at these gatherings. Please do not attend gatherings because you could end up as an innocent victim,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n
He stressed, however, that those firing were responsible for the shootings \u2014 which he called \u201cattempted or actual murder\u201d \u2014 and vowed to bring them to justice.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am also calling on everyone to help put an end this culture of resolving personal disputes with guns as well as to reduce the far too prevalent availability of illegal guns on our streets,\u201d he said. \u201cThe very sad reality is people are getting in trouble when they have nowhere to go and nothing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
In July, the Enquirer reported that the city had experienced a rise in shootings and homicides from gun violence during the first half of the year as compared to the same time period in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
International Desk:\u00a0 At least 18 people were shot, including four killed, as gunfire erupted in several places in the City of Cincinnati in Ohio overnight, authorities said Sunday. Officers responded just after 12:30 am Sunday to the Avondale neighborhood and found 21-year-old Antonio Blair with gunshot wounds, police said in a statement. He was taken […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":61726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5,14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n